Another early start and a beautiful morning with a little more snow.
And another drive into Reykjavik for the South Coast tour - an 11 hour trip of waterfalls, a hike on a glacier and a walk on a black sand coast!
Volcanic landscape with snow
View from the back of our bus
Waterfall
The spray from the waterfall immediately turned to ice so when you went closer it was like being sand blasted with hail stones - not a place to linger!
There were some amazing icicles and ice patterns on the rocks and plants nearby.
On the glacier
In the hour that we were on the glacier the weather changed from snow to sleet to grey to bit of sunshine and back again - all within minutes.
We had a health and safety talk from our guide. As the snow was fresh we had to be careful that we only stepped in his footsteps and didn't go anywhere else as we couldn't see the previous tracks and there may have been cracks in the ice.
Some of the others from our group with another guide in the distance and our group following our guide very carefully and being helped over a small crevasse.
As we had all been kitted out with crampons and ice picks we felt very brave and intrepid!
We only used the ice picks for knocking the snow off our boots but it still felt very adventurous.
Our guide found one of the cracks in the glacier - it can be several hundred metres deep! He used his stick to show us.
Black beach
An absolutely freezing cold and very windy black beach!
More waterfalls...
There were several waterfalls here - all very spectacular but not as big as some of the others we had seen.
You could walk behind the larger one here but it was a climb up wet and snowy rocks to get there so we didn't bother.
Very cold, very wet but very spectacular.
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