{"id":662,"date":"2021-06-21T03:27:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T08:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2023-12-26T22:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T03:05:19","slug":"day-5-sunday-june-20-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Day 5: The North"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Today we left the Troll Peninsula and headed to the town of Husavik in the North Region, but not before Paul’s wallow in the hot pot and infinity pool. It was an easy day of driving today, a good deal of it on the actual Ring Road, with a couple of stops along the way. The main highway around the country, Route 1, is a two-lane road. We got to our camp ground about 6:00-6:30 pm<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The town was a famous fishing harbor in the past, now they are famous for the “Best Whale Watching in Iceland”, and their deluxe hot pots by the sea, which seem pretty fancy based on their description. Paul snagged us the last two seats on a small boat going out at 9:30 am tomorrow, on the Whale & Puffin tour.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"Green<\/a>\r\n
Here we are leaving the farmlands of the Troll Peninsula. Dark lumps are horses in the background. It\u00e2\u20ac™s nearly noon.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The landscape changed quite a bit as we were moved though it. There were still plenty of horses, green fields and farmland in various stages of planting and mountains to view along the way. But, gone were the browns and dusty green pallet of the Westfjords, here the mountains are darker, some appearing even black. They were closing in on the wide open land. In some places making the road seem like a mountain pass and their tops were covered with glaciers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"Roadway<\/a>\r\n
Here, as the mountains close in, the feeling of roadway changes.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Many along the roadway were covered with long deep vertical deep groves created by the melting snow and along those paths grew bright green plants\u00a0 I am guessing the green was some kind of moss.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"Black<\/a>\r\n
Here are some of the black mountains. I’ve posted this one with cars to give some perspective on the size of them.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Our first stop today was in the capital of the north Akureyri.\u00c2\u00a0 We found a place to park the camper in the center of town and had a look around the city. It was a very cute old city, you can still see some of the old architecture in with the new.\u00a0 We got some lunch and hot coco and hit the road again. I didn’t take any photos of the town : (
But Paul did YAY!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"A<\/a>\r\n
Paul captured this image of directional arrows in Akureyri.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We detoured for a visit to Godafoss. Since it ends in foss, you may have picked up the naming pattern here and figured out it is a waterfall.\u00a0 It was created by the fourth largest river in Iceland called Skjlfandafljot. It is a semi-circle shape and the water has an amazing green & blue hue to it.\u00a0 It’s name means waterfalls of the gods, there is a story behind the name, but you can look that up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"Godafoss<\/a>\r\n
This is the blue hue that Godafoss send down the river. As you might see from the mist there are smaller falls through the canyon the falls have created.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"Godafoss<\/a>\r\n
These are the Godafoss falls showing the green hue.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

After that we headed for our campground making it an early night for us. This midnight sun light here around summer solstice time is very interesting.\u00a0 In the late afternoon, it appears to be about 5:00 or 6 pm for hours. And, morning light seems to look like 9 or 10 am and it lingers there from about 4:00 am till nearly noon.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we left the Troll Peninsula and headed to the town of Husavik in the North Region, but not before Paul’s wallow in the hot pot and infinity pool. It was an easy day of driving today, a good deal of it on the actual Ring Road, with a couple of stops along the way. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193,7,115],"tags":[127,117,214],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-193","category-iceland","category-iceland-2021","tag-godafoss","tag-ring-road","tag-waterfalls","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiewebbie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}