Reykjavik - Day Two
Reykjavik - Day Two
We were up early for breakfast and took our luggage down to the lobby where it would be stored for the day while we ventured out on an all-day tour of the southern peninsula of Iceland. Every time the bus moved, I slept so missed a lot of the commentary. However, we did enjoy seeing much of the lava rock strewn countryside, sulphur springs, mud pots, etc for which Iceland is famous. At one stop near several shipwrecks, I spotted a whale twice breaking the water. The guide thought it must have been a fin whale - the second largest creature on earth - the blue whale being the biggest. We stopped at a restaurant in a small town for lunch. I had only a taste as I wasn't feeling too well but Norma assures me it was very good. We drove to two different areas where the Teutonic plates from America and Europe meet. Their clashing is responsible for all the volcanic activity here. You can clearly see the fissures between the two plates so we crossed from America to Europe and back again. We finished the afternoon at "The Pearl" an interactive museum about Iceland.
The bus took us to the ship at 4:30 where after a 15 minute registration process we got to our room where the nightmare really began.
We were up early for breakfast and took our luggage down to the lobby where it would be stored for the day while we ventured out on an all-day tour of the southern peninsula of Iceland. Every time the bus moved, I slept so missed a lot of the commentary. However, we did enjoy seeing much of the lava rock strewn countryside, sulphur springs, mud pots, etc for which Iceland is famous. At one stop near several shipwrecks, I spotted a whale twice breaking the water. The guide thought it must have been a fin whale - the second largest creature on earth - the blue whale being the biggest. We stopped at a restaurant in a small town for lunch. I had only a taste as I wasn't feeling too well but Norma assures me it was very good. We drove to two different areas where the Teutonic plates from America and Europe meet. Their clashing is responsible for all the volcanic activity here. You can clearly see the fissures between the two plates so we crossed from America to Europe and back again. We finished the afternoon at "The Pearl" an interactive museum about Iceland.
The bus took us to the ship at 4:30 where after a 15 minute registration process we got to our room where the nightmare really began.
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