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09.07.2011 09:51

Cavesvisit

We had talked about it a lot, planned it for ages, but never actually done it til today, when our friends Bjössi and Rakel called to invite us to go and visit caves in Þeistareykirarea.
After a drive over a gravel road we stopped to visit the first cave, right beside the old road to Þeistareykir. The ceiling had partly crushed, but you could still walk in there and have a look at tiny drippstones in the shine of your pocketlight.
We continued our drive in a lot of dust, turning into a small track leading straight to the huge lavafield. Well, partly it was really hard to call it a track, climbing over lava, avoiding holes in the ground and driving tiny turns. At the end of the track we left the cars, equipped ourselves properly and started to look for the caves. First we went to see Togarahellir, which has water and ice in the bottom. We had to climb over a snowfield to be able to go down, but the view was worth it!
Vignir and Berta, the kids of Bjössi and Rakel, were with us too and enjoyed the trip very much.
Afterwards we went to look for another cave with drippingstones. It was quite a walk as Bjössi didn't remember exactly where that cave was. As a matter of fact we had a look at every hole in the ground. That lead into finding caves, they had never been into before. Nice to see the drippingstones in some of these caves, but sad to see, that other people already had been there and breaking stones off or turning them over by stepping on them.
When we were about to turn around and walk back, Ingólfur finally found the cave they had been looking for all the time! It was a bit strange feeling to go down into the earth, just with a tiny light on your head and no idea what would expect you. As I said before, it was worth every step we took and beautiful drippingstones hanging from the ceiling and growing from the ground. We took quite some pics in the shine of our lights.
After walking back to our cars and having a coffee and some sandwiches, we drove all the way up to the hut in Þeistareykir, signed the guestbook and continued our drive down to Hólasandur and home. We grabbed some pizza for dinner and had a good chat about the day.
Ingólfur and I finished our day Whalewatching from our stallionfence in the eveningsun. Nice to see so many whales blow in the bay!






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