Dikes

What I spend all day looking at and taking measurements on. And then hacking at madly with a rock hammer.

Iceland

Restaurant made of sod, by Snaefellsjokull.

There was a sign nearby about Jules Verne and the hole to the center of the earth, unfortunately it didn't say where the hole was located.

Snaefellsjokull and Stykkisholmur

Yesterday we took our day off and headed up to the Snaefellsnes peninsula. It was pretty kickass. We fit in a lot, visiting a few museums and touring around the peninsula. Saw some seals and tried the fermented shark, which was probably my one goal for Iceland. We tried to go up to see the Snaefellsjokull glacier, but alas, our little red Corolla wasn't up to the steep dirt roads and we didn't want to get stuck in the middle of nowhere.
In Stykkisholmur, where we spent Wednesday night, there was this awesome church up on the hill. We stopped by when we first got there and since it was closed, we decided to come back during the morning to check it out.
I visited dozens of European churches when I studied abroad and Icelandic ones are so different. The inside was very graphic and modern. Behind the altar was a very beautiful but definitely untraditional painting of Mary holding the baby Jesus and the place was lit by these two windows on either side of the altar and all of these hanging lightbulbs that were all on different lengths of pieces of wire. So simple and beautiful.

A day off???

Skagastrond

Aleece and I are finally taking a day off tomorrow and going up to Snaefellsnes peninsula to visit the Bjarnhofn shark museum (where you can taste fermented shark YESSS) and we're going to try to hike on Snaefellsjokull glacier.

Be back shortly.

Iceland: Sunsets

There have started to be sunsets here, although this is still as dark as it gets. I guess here this means that Summer is ending and that Winter is right around the corner, they kind of skip Fall here, maybe it's the lack of trees.

Our field area

The stream cut Aleece and I have been working the past week and a half



How we get up and down on the Eastern side, it's not really steep enough that you'd have to use the rope, but it helps.

Blue and white

There are always so many different types of clouds in the sky at once here, it makes the sky look like something out of a fairytale.