Continuing our day on the 4x4 7-18-11

We made our way to a camp site. Bjarki had no idea that we were not campers! Pretty funny but interesting to see all these Germans, French, locals, etc...taking off their clothes and running through a field to get to a warm spring where they sat with about 12 other people in a God-made hot tub! Not for us. Kathleen found the "mall" and went shopping. We got cookies for a friend of hers back home.
The weird shot is out the front windshield of our Super Jeep while we plunged into a river and took on a bunch of water. It went up and over the vehicle and it was thrilling. We stayed in river beds mudding and riding though river a lot of the day. Really fun.







This was a steel sign that was bent to point straight up...we should have known it was going to be scary!


Pictures from the top of Mount Helka




There are wildflowers all over the place. If I could did up some of this Lupin, the tall blue/purple flowers I would. Why? They say it grows like Kudzu!! We need a bunch of this stuff to "color-up" the tornado ravaged area of our neighborhood at home! A little wildflower color would be welcome there. Somebody google it and see if Lupin seeds can be bought and brought to Alabama!!
Horses. Icelandic horses are small and gentle. They are supposedly easy for beginners to ride. We managed to come across a herd just making their way down the road. Sadly, they eat horse here and say it is very good. We have not tried it. Another thing, the horses all have bangs!!




Smiling faces by the waterfalls. There was no wind to speak of. Our guide told us that last Saturday in this area that they could hardly stand here never mind the top of the volcano in all the wind!



There is so much water both crazy hot and crazy cold you can't have a day in Iceland without seeing a magnificent waterfall! Our guide, BRkey, that is not how you spell it but how you say it, his name is really spelled, Bjarki. He was great. He was very knowledgeable about all we saw and did and was smart enough not to get too close to the edges of the mountains even when I thought he was way too close. The letting the air out of the tires gave us a smoother ride STRAIGHT up the mountain. We even rode through ice/snow fields with ease. It was a little scary but we got used to it. The incline going up that mountain was about about 75 degrees. It was up, up, up, and when we stopped I was happy not to go to the very top.
The waterfall was a good place to "plank" or at least Kathleen thought so!