May 28 - Dark and rainy this morning. Our apartment is really nice, with views of the waterfall on one side, ocean on the other. Book a lava tube tour at Vatnshellir Cave for 11 am, so head out that way.
We are given helmets and flashlights for the tour. As cold as it is outside, the cave is much colder. Then entrance still has a pile of snow. The tour is about 45 minutes and we walk through two levels.
Drive south from here to the Visitor’s Center at Malarrif, where there are displays on animals, history, and legends of the peninsula. From here to go Malarrif Lighthouse and the black pebble beach.
Walking south along the coast from here takes us to the Lóndrangar ‘cliffs’, which are remnants of volcanic plugs, but with sections of what appears to be tuffaceous rocks.
The rain continues so we head back toward Olafsvik. On the way we visit a few more things.
The first is Djúpalónssandur (Black Lava Pearl Beach), a black sand beach and a freshwater lagoon squashed between two large lava flows.
One last waterfall, Svöðufoss. It is a flat walk across a heath meadow. There has been recent flooding here, as the turf has been folded back along the edge of the river.
In the evening, Debbie selects some fish from the grocery store for dinner. In the meantime, Odette and I go back to the swimming pool complex and Janet walks up to the waterfall above town.
