Our next stop was Vik. We found a neat spot to park down by
the black sandy beach. I was surprised at the sand – not by the colour because
we had read about that in our guidebook – but rather by the texture. I had
expected hard flat sand worn down by wind and waves. Instead, the sand was soft
and loosely packed and its give underfoot made walking a little more difficult.
On other parts of the beach, the surface was more like crumbled black pebbles
of lava.
Vik was a neat spot with excellent views of the shoreline and
the sound of hundreds and thousands of birds nesting in the face of the cliff
behind us. Their chirping, cooing, whistling, trilling, was a constant buzz
during the day, especially at dawn and dusk.
However, I think that what I will remember most about Vik
was the wind. That night as we tried to sleep in our little motor home, the
wind blew so violently that I thought we might tip over. Of course, this was
the night that our propane ran out and Lyle needed to go outside to change the
tanks over. He was surprised to find that at three in the morning he had no
need of a flashlight. It was already light enough to see perfectly well. We
were far enough north to enjoy many hours of daylight and only a very short few
hours of dark at night. Also interesting was the fact that even though the rain
was pelting down, Lyle didn’t really get wet while he was outside. The wind and
rain were both sleeting in sideways from the ocean and the propane tank was on
the landside of the RV. It was the RV that offered Lyle protection from the
elements as he crouched to set the full propane tank to work.
There are two pictures with this post. In both, I am
standing on the black sandy pebbly beach. The first shows the shoreline looking
to the east and the second picture shows the shore looking back to the west. In
the background of this one there is a rock formation of three tall rocks. We
recognized this same formation in a visual presentation at the Harpa
Entertainment Centre on our last day in Reykjavik.
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| Sue on the black sandy pebbly beach |
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| Sue on the beach with three tall rock formation in the background |
You will have to tell me what makes the sand black? Very interesting. Liked the pictures.
ReplyDeleteDorothy