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The abandoned US Radarstation

Day 50 / 41 / 2
I decided to do a day hike up to an old US Radarstation Ghostdown without backback, ate a hearty breakfast, rested in the sun, drank one liter water in advance and took one waterbottle and a Fleece and a Jacket with me for the 5 hour hike. The whole day was super sunny, and the way up without wind super warm.
and enjoyed a great view up the mountain 🙂 
very nice to walk through the ruins of this Ghostdown, not much Equipment left, and to see ..
the destruction through time
a brown fox came quite close after my dinner at the campground, you can see the small brown fox in the back when he ran of again 🙂

 

 

 

Hornstrandir

Day 49 / 40 / 1
perfect summer weather on the first day, arrived in Hesteyri on Monday 2pm ..
The first part of the path to Sæbol was wrong in the map and gps, Wetlands always made it in impossible to go by the mountain side, so we turned (the first few km I went with a nice french guy I met) twice and walked on the shore, which was also the real path, where at a special point it headed up the mountain, after the first river crossing only about 20cm deep, hiked up the mountain and lost the path again, but found it again and had not to walk through the Wetlands again, which would probably cost a lot of time, at that point I hiked alone met one couple and after that nobody for that day..
I decided to head to Látrar instead of Sæbol, it was already high tide though, like it would also be in the morning, but like the guide said, „no problem, you can go by high tide, there is rope and a ladder“, what he did not tell it was a metal chain down the cliff 90-70 degree, the first part was quite ok, the second part was quite hard, with the 20kg backpack it was hell down and it took quite long and a lot of strengh after about a almost 13 km hike and I was glad that I survived, from here on it was a lot of rock climbing and I hoped the rest would be passable with high tide …
and was rewarded with a beautiful beach and my first arctic fox sight on Hornstrandir ..
and an amazing sunset after about 19km hike 🙂 

 

going west

Day 44 / 35
My package with my new gps cleared customs, I used a 500 ISK priority option when sending the invoice, totally worth it 🙂 Therefore I booked the boats from and to Hornstrandir for my hike, no Hot Pools and no Internet and let’s hope no rain too 😀will be in Hornstrandir from Monday, 22nd to Saturday 27th, last boat of the season, so I should not miss that one 😀
First I drank some mineral water, swam in mineral water, hiked up to this beautiful waterfall right beside the road, found a lot of icelandic blueberries  and then the rain came down quite hard at the west end of Snæfellsness.

The best beach in Iceland

Day 42 / 33
After dealing with customs again, the weirdest call ever, a package sent with the post is still stuck in customs, I quote an icelandic friend: „Welcome to the middle-ages. You didn’t just travel geographically, you travelled in time.“ That quote made my day 😀 The sky cleared up and I decided to relax at one of my favorite spots in Iceland, the Beach in Reykjavik with a great hot pool (about 37-39°c) and another one right in the sea (about 33-35°c) and the sea (about 10-18 °c) and stayed there a few hours 😀 awesome 

Kisa

Day 41 / 32
Started the day with a cat photo shooting in Downtown Reykjavík, 5 cute cats (lítill rass) in less than an hour 😀

Then went to a great music festival, it was a quite cold rainy day but the it felt so cozy and warm there 😀 ☮ There was a live concert at the Studios from the Bedroom Comunity and Pascal Pinot played in the living room of some people there, and also the last three concerts in the small hall were just amazing