Adventures in the outdoors
We began Day 8 with a plan to find some of Iceland’s natural hot pots. Not the ones that are tubs or pools filled with the hot water from the hot springs, but the natural ones that are formed with rocks and dirt. I had found a page online that showed a map of all the hot springs, hot pots, pools etc and was determined to see at least one of the natural springs with the hopes of jumping in and testing it out.
We started day six with a lot of excitement because we were venturing to the Westfjords. This was not on our scheduled program, but we had heard it was an amazing drive and we were really excited to have the time to go. Our main question was whether we would drive clockwise or counter-clockwise. Keep reading to find out!
Here we are now on the morning of Day 5! At this point in our travels we realized that we were ahead of schedule as we were not due back into Reykjavik for another 5 more days to drop off the camper and get our flight back to Canada. This meant we would plan to not only drive the Westlands as suggested by the Happy Camper guy, but we would also head for the Westfjords! This was super exciting as we would cover more than we had initially planned. For now we were covering the North Coast, waterfalls, towns, and what we were told was the “best swimming pool in Iceland”.
Good morning Day 4, kinda… We were greeted with fog, and lots of it for our next section in Iceland. It really felt like we had been transported to the East Coast of Newfoundland, not the East Coast of Iceland. The plan for today was to drive the East Coast and head inland a bit to the North Coast. Breakfast was the usual oatmeal, then we opened the map to check out any symbols that might be points of interest, and hit the road.