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After breakfast, we headed towards Dynjandi, the largest waterfall in the West Fjords.
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| Morning in Patreksfjörður |
Thomas (and Esther out of picture) at the gas station washing the car,
which needed daily washing due to dust, sand and many dead bugs. |
We saw sheep everywhere in Iceland; Icelandic wool products are famous. |
The sky, the sea and the fjords in peaceful monochrome. |
No, this is not Dynjandi; just a "small" waterfall by the road. |
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| 11:00am |
Dynjandi (the thundering one)
was actually a series of five waterfalls.
Each of the waterfalls had a name, but I was not sure which was which, so I would
just called them waterfalls 1 to 5, starting downstream.
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| Waterfall 1 (Fjallfoss?) |
Esther and Thomas on the top of Waterfall 1. |
Waterfall 2 (Hrisvaðsfoss?) |
Emily and CK watching the rapids flowing into the bay. |
Waterfall 3 (Hæstahjallafoss?) |
Emily and CK at Waterfall 4. |
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| Esther and Thomas, with the bay behind them. |
This is Waterfall 5, Dynjandi itself, 100 meter high, 30 and 60 meter wide
at the top and the bottom, respectively. |
Esther and Thomas holding hands. |
Little plants collecting water from the fall. |
The riverbed was full of large round pebbles. |
One last picture of Dynjandi before hitting the road. |
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| 2:00pm |
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| The tunnel into Ísafjörður, a single lane tunnel with traffic both ways.
And a junction in the middle. Drive carefully! |
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| Emily loved the multi-color little houses of Ísafjörður. |
Click to see an interesting cloud! |
Ísafjörður is the largest city
(some would say the only city) in West Fjords.
We wanted to take a ferry around the fjords to save some very convoluted driving,
but found out that the ferry service had gone bankrupt.
But we bought a lot of food (no food for the next 200 km) for our roadside lunch.
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| 3:15pm |
We had a late lunch at a roadside picnic area at
Kambsnes.
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| We had sandwiches (ham, salami, tomato, lettuces) and malt extracts (four more cans
to go).
| Panorama at Kambsnes. Notice the glaciers on the opposite shore. The left and
right halves of the picture were two fjords seperated by Kambsnes. |
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| Icelandic Fjords. |
Lot of driving after lunch, as we had reservation for the night at the Gauksmýri Horse
Farm 200 km away.
It looked much closer on the map, but the fjord coastline was so convoluted
that it took 30 km of driving (on gravel road this would took more than half an hour)
to move a few km on the map.
Still, we were fairly compensated with the pristine scenery.
Except for several isolated small farms, the route was essentially uninhabited.
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| 8:00pm |
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| Cute little girl giving doggie a tummy rub. |
Emily loved playing with doggie too. |
Mommy horses and their babies. |
Horses grooming each other. |
My favorite animal at the Gauksmýri Horse Farm near
Hvammstangi was a beautiful dog.
She was very friendly and loved being pampered.
After dinner we strolled out to the field to see the horses.
The Mommy horses were taking care of the baby horses (so cute).
Their Daddies were not around, probably drinking beer somewhere.
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