Next stop on my tour around the different regions of Iceland was Vik on the South Coast. On the way I made a stop at Seljalandsfoss a waterfall on the road to Vik, where it was possible to walk behind the waterfall. Vik was a great base to explore the south. I went to the famous black beach to see the basalt rock stacks and the incredible cliffs. Puffins were fishing just off the shore and the white waves crashing onto the black beach was very dramatic.
The next day I drove along the coast to Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon where the Breidamerkurjokull glacier is melting into the sea, creating a lagoon full of icebergs. The ice that has travelled to the lagoon is approximately 1000 years old andthe lagoon is full of seals hunting salmon. The Vatnajokull ice field that Breidamerkurjokull is part of is the third largest sheet of ice in the world after the Antarctic and Arctic.
On the way back east to Reykjavik I stopped off at Myrdalsjokull glacier for a super jeep tour. It was snowing heavily and visibility was limited until suddenly the sun came out giving me a spectacular view from the top. The volcano Katla lives under Myrdalsjokull and is likely to be the next volcano to explode in Iceland. When it does it will melt some of the glacier and flood the land below with silty melt water, expanding the coastline by a few kilometres.
