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Driving to Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Iceland

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Tuesday, May 19 – The poor sleep we’ve been getting here in Iceland was making it difficult to get moving in the morning. We got off to a late start. For breakfast, we took the car to a bakery in a shopping center in the suburbs. Parking was free and abundant.

We realized the bakery was part of a local chain. The signs were all in Icelandic, with no English. But the people behind the counter spoke English and were happy to explain what was in the assorted goodies. This bakery was about half as expensive as the places we’d gone to downtown.

The food was great. We’ve been blown away by the food here in Iceland — we haven’t had a single mediocre meal, let alone a bad meal. Once we finished eating, we set off, this time heading north on Highway 1. It was another beautiful day, sunny and 49 degrees Fahrenheit (9.44 celsius). 

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Keith’s Perspective on Cape Canaveral and Jacksonville/Le point de vue de Keith sur Cap Canaveral et Jacksonville

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May 2 – May 8, 2026: This week has been tiring. On Saturday, we arrived in Cape Canaveral. The marina we went to was nice, and there were a ton of people there to help us dock.

Cette semaine était fatigante. Samedi, nous sommes arrivés à Cap Canaveral. La marina était sympa, et il y avait beaucoup de personnes qui nous ont aidés.

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Dyrhólaey Natural Reserve and the Drive Back to Reykjavík, Iceland

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continued… We walked down the path towards the ocean.

According to the sign, Dyrhólaey was believed to have formed 80,000 years ago in a submarine eruption, and was originally a separate island. Over the millennia, the sea level has reduced. The lowering sea level exposed the land between the Dyrhólaey and the main land, so now it was a promontory (we had to look that word up, too. It meant a high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water). It was 120-meters tall. Here was a shot of the ridge of silt built up in the water. Note the line of cars on the left that were waiting for someone to leave so they could enter the parking lot.

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The Secret Waterfall Part 2 and The Drive to Dyrhólaey, Iceland

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Monday, May 18 continued… At first, it looked like there was no way to get close to this fall, either. As the path wound around, we saw the waterfall through a crack in the cliff face.

We noticed people were walking into the crack, despite the fact that the ground was covered in water. So we followed. While there were deeper spots where one would get their ankles wet, most of the water was so shallow that it barely covered the ground — but we did have to watch where we stepped. Sadly, Christi did make one misstep and one of her feet was drenched. Here was a shot looking back at the path from inside.

We found ourselves in a little cave, of sorts. A hawng was actually a more accurate description. We were surprised to see that the waterfall dropped into a gap in the top of the rock at the back of the cave.

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The Caves of Hella Part 2, Lunch at a Gas Station, and The Secret Waterfall Part 1

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Continued… We continued across the field to the fourth cave.

This one was currently used as a smokehouse. It had previously been used as a smokehouse, but they’d stopped — we didn’t remember why. The government approved it being used as a smokehouse again, but they couldn’t have open fire. So they got a contained smoker that ran on sheep poop. He made a lot of jokes about that. They grew their own meat and smoked it here, and it was available for sale in the little store where we’d purchased our tickets.

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