ICELAND 2016 Day 07 To Gauksmyri

Well this day is the last day in my touristing part of my holidays. Im heading out to Hvammstangi to go to the horse round up of Viðidalur which is the main reason for me going to Iceland this time of the year. With pain in my heart I left Húsavík, this tiny town had such an impact on me, I just cant explain. I felt like last year when I drove out of Hvammstangi, a sudden feeling of emotions that hit me there, and forced me to park on the roadside to deal with it. But last year I drove towards some more added happiness, which this year, didnt fell part of my holidays. I left Húsavík behind, where I saw this amazing auroras two nights ago. Which led me to so much beautifull places and touched my heart. I doubted to go on a whalewatching tour as the weather was so calm, and the water shimmered like a mirror. But money, I simply didnt have it. I couldnt afford it, despite this week has a 100% ratio of seeing whales. Life throws lemons sometimes.

On my way to Hvammstangi, I planned to visit Goðafoss again, assuming it would be on the way to Akureyri. But suddenly I was there on the mountain pass that overlooks the bay and I knew I missed the Goðafoss, by simply not being on that part of the ringroad. I drove by another way to the ringroad than I expected. A nice one though.
It was easy to drive back if I wanted to, but I would see Goðafoss again for sure. I turned right to visit Laufas, the old turf church and farm, to find out it was closed and no where allowed to park the car. I took some pictures and moved on to Akureyri.

In Akureyri I took a little break on this beautifull day to visit the botanical garden there. I have never felt so out of Iceland as here. It was beautifull so un Icelandic as could be, seeing all this trees and flowers, and nice hide outs. I loved it. Really I do. And it was even free to visit. I so love Iceland!
I walked around and took a drive with a friend I caught up with, who drove me up to the ski resort, to have another view of Akureyri, and after that to the large forest near Akureyri which was inhabited by a lot of rabbits looking like Teun Fewspots. My lovely rabbit at home.
So in the end, I still visited some of the things I couldnt due to all the rain while staying in Akureyri. But still the town itself has to wait.

On my way to Hvammstangi again, it was awesome weather, I stopped at Hraundrangar, and it was so warm, feeling like 20 degrees or more. Could easily walk in tshirt there.

I had a quick lunch and went off to visit Glaumbær. Glaumbær is a turf farm museum in Skagafjorður. But it costed money to see everything, and I cant pay everything. I just wandered around and saw what I could, and proceeded my journey. Strange enough it led me to Sauðarkrókur. And after Sauðarkrókur it led me more north and followed another road through the middle of nowhere. It was a nice change of course, less traffic than on the ringroad. I loved it.

I reached my destination shortly after that. Such a nice day. I checked in into my room and just relaxed a bit. Circumstances looked fine for another aurora display tonight, so I prepared my camera for that. But sadly later that night clouds gathered. It was thin enough to see the auroras were going wild again, it flashed all in green like a freaky light show, making the world look spooky. And once in a while I saw a curtain of auroras roll out over a patch of clear sky. It was impossible to picture it, and so I just stood there and watched. Taking only the following picture (not available just yet. Sorry). We cant have luck all the time. I was lucky to be in Iceland during a major solar storm lasting for almost a week, but unlucky to have cloudy nights on most of the nights, to say only one was without. But it was the best night. Lucky enough for that :)


Lets gear up for tomorrow, finally after a whole year touching and riding horses again. But still doubting about wether to choose my Thorra or another horse... choices choices...