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Sunday, August 19, 2007
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Icelandic Adventure
A diary of Leigh and Anna´s journey around iceland. We thought this would be a great way to log our adventure so we can look back at it in the future. Also those that are so inclined can have a look and see what we got up to!
Days of our Holiday
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Anna's General Observations.
Driving can be quite a hairy experience. Most times I’ve taken to the wheel, its been raining and I’ve had to negotiate my first mountain routes. Route 1 is actually quite a good road with a speed limit of 90km/hr. This is fine, until a sheep randomly pops up at the side of the road (you need to get separate sheep insurance out here because you have to pay the farmer when you hit them – think that shows how common they are!). Also we seem to be heading in the opposite direction to most other drivers. So on a drive out we normally have lots of 4 x 4’s hurtling pas us at speed with either a trailer or caravan on the back. Some drivers aren’t that sure where the middle of the road is so you have to swerve out the way. Over several of the rivers are single track bridges and some of them can be quite scary. They seem to only have enough room to squeeze our little car through.
Hot water - Iceland has pretty much a free and limitless supply of hot water thanks to the many volcanoes. Each area is supplied with water by its local volcano. So you can take as long a shower as you like, but there is a downside – you can’t help notice the smell of sulphur. On the second morning, all I could smell in my hair was eggs which is pretty awful. Thankfully the next hotel, the water smell isn’t so strong so I guess they are using a different volcano!
Hot water - Iceland has pretty much a free and limitless supply of hot water thanks to the many volcanoes. Each area is supplied with water by its local volcano. So you can take as long a shower as you like, but there is a downside – you can’t help notice the smell of sulphur. On the second morning, all I could smell in my hair was eggs which is pretty awful. Thankfully the next hotel, the water smell isn’t so strong so I guess they are using a different volcano!
Wildlife
On our trip we saw several different species of bird and whale.
Birds flock here to the cliffs and islands and you can often sea huge colonies of hundreds of them. We were lucky to see two huge Pufifn colonies in Vik & Akurey Island near Reykjavik. The birds come to land in spring and leave with their young in August to breed out at sea. We also encountered a huge number of Swans in the Lonsvik bay. These birds migrate from Iceland to England in the summer. Lots of other birds can be found in the various ponds and lakes all over the Island.
We were lucky enough to see two species of whale. We saw a humpback whale at both Husavik and Reykjavik and two Minke whales in Reykjavik. The humpack whale can be 17 metres long and weigh as much as 35 tonnes. The smaller Minke whale can reach 11 metres long and weight up to 10 tonnes.
Birds flock here to the cliffs and islands and you can often sea huge colonies of hundreds of them. We were lucky to see two huge Pufifn colonies in Vik & Akurey Island near Reykjavik. The birds come to land in spring and leave with their young in August to breed out at sea. We also encountered a huge number of Swans in the Lonsvik bay. These birds migrate from Iceland to England in the summer. Lots of other birds can be found in the various ponds and lakes all over the Island.
We were lucky enough to see two species of whale. We saw a humpback whale at both Husavik and Reykjavik and two Minke whales in Reykjavik. The humpack whale can be 17 metres long and weigh as much as 35 tonnes. The smaller Minke whale can reach 11 metres long and weight up to 10 tonnes.
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