Vik to Reykjavik

We woke up in yet another awesome campspot and headed to Dyrholaey, which is a sea-bird reserve, and where there were supposed to be puffins around. The cliffs and rock formations in the area were some of the coolest we'd seen, again making Iceland seem even prettier. We walked around here, and sat on the cliffs watching the puffins and other birds fly in the wild winds and tall cliffs. Mel squealed just about every time a puffin would fly out from the cliff and out and around. We headed onward, to Skogafoss, another awesome waterfall.

Morning view

Wind shelters

View from one end of Dyrholaey

I think these two knew each other

Cliffs and caves at Dyrholaey, the three trolls in the distance on the right

There was a large 10 foot diameter hole right about where Dave is out there, that just dropped through that bridge 

Hi mom!

Tough to see in the pics, but there's a little puffin flying around down there

again

Hiyo!

Whoa!

good colors

That's Matt out there

 Then we continued on, checking out two other waterfalls and their areas - Skogafoss and Seljalandsfoss. Both awesome!

Skogafoss

Impressive

:)

from behind the Seljalandsfoss waterfall - we got pretty wet, but was really worth it

side view

Then we visited Geysir, the original geyser that we now call all other geysers after. It doesn't actually blow anymore though.... wah wah wah..., but others near it do! The main one there blows every 8-10 minutes, and up to 35 meters high!
This was part of the Golden Circle - the three closest and main attractions to Reykjavik, so after this, we headed to Pingvellir, the continental drift between North American plates and Eurasian plates. Pretty impressive history of this site also - was where parliament was established in 930 AD, and up to 1798. I'm not good with history, so wikipedia the rest...

a geyser

hot and sulfur-y

and ridiculously blue!

Here we go!

Pingvellir

Continental drift