Today I woke up at 7am and went to breakfast to discover a large selection of choices. We ventured east to explore the subglacial erosion on the rocks and to visit Dverghamrar. Ljósmynd is a large rock at Dverghamrar and legend has it that trolls carved away at it to design it's unique features. The name originates from tales being told about supernatural beings. The geology aspect proves to convey the natural monument history. Basalt columns have formed by contraction and cooling of lava producing the rock formed vertically with abstract characteristics.
We then drove along the longest bridge in Iceland currently reaching a length of 800 metres. The bridge was purposely built so that when volcanoes erupt and affect the water, it is expected to provide land to cater for the volcano's damage and to prevent floods and demolishing urban areas. When the Laki eruption occurred in 1783, it produced 138 craters and many gorges. Lava travelled 40km north and 60km towards the ocean. The initial eruption then caused bursts of activity, the rover was 1200 degrees lava and 1/4 of the Icelandic population died mainly by drastic intake of sulphur dioxide and fluorine gas. The 1783 daze effected temperature it was very hot preternaturally! Hot summers occurred every year. Then we visited a piece of a bridge that was called skeiðarárdur that sand-flats had washed away in a glacial flood caused by an eruption in the north. The bridge was 12 meters long,100-200 tonne and was completely demolished.
After our sightseeing on the bus, we went to Vatnajokulspjodgardur national park. The national park walk was extremely long and tiring. We walked up a mountain on a small singular dirt track. The sun was blazing and the sharp sun rays made the walk incredibly exhausting. The trek was worth it for when we reached the top the views were spectacular and it was a fantastic photo opportunity. We spectated over numerous icebergs and had a amazing view of Icelands biggest mountain which is over 2100 meters high. We took a route named svartifoss and walk was five and a half kilometres long and took us about two and a half hours! It was defiantly easy to say the walk down was substantially much simpler. When we reached the bottom, we paused the day for lunch.
After having lunch and revitalising ourselves we set of to the ice lagoon called Sveitarfelagid hornafjordur. We took a duck (bus) boat and drove into the ice lagoon. The water was significantly freezing and the man gave us some ice to eat, it tasted very fresh. We spectated an iceberg flipping. After our eventful boat journey we went to the beach to discover more icebergs that were extremely enjoyable to climb however they were also very slippy. The sand was black and came from the volcano therefore mostly consisted of ash. The waves were very unpredictable and came in at a rapid pace and caught many people out causing there feet and legs to be very wet. After we climbed most of the ice burgs and took photos we went back to the bus and took off our shoes and socks and got on the bus to travel back to the same hotel as last night (hotel Laki).
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