#Dritvík

[herbalnature]

This serene image captures the rugged beauty of Dritvík, with its dramatic rock formations reaching out into the azure waters along a coastline strewn with black pebbles and sand. The quiet strength of nature is evident as the waves softly wash over the shore, while the mossy crowns atop the basalt columns stand testament to the rich interplay of land and sea. Credit: /u/scenicdurian

[projectcampbell]

Waves at Dritvík 13.05.18

[poe-hall]

A Poe in her natural habitat #ísland #iceland #snaefellsnes #westiceland #dritvík #djúpalónssandur #blacklavapearlbeach #peninsula (at Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMrm_41Mn8p/?igshid=1qqp9vb3v2wi3

[titou-nz]

Snaefellsnes - Iceland

Le parc national de Snæfellsjökull, est un parc national d'Islande situé dans la municipalité de Snæfellsbær l'ouest du pays. Il fut créé en 2001 et s'étend sur 170 km2.

Le parc couvre l'extrémité occidentale de la péninsule de Snæfellsnes dont le flanc Ouest et le sommet de la montagne Snæfellsjökull qui lui a donné son nom et qui domine le paysage. Cette montagne est en réalité un stratovolcan, dont la plus ancienne éruption remonte à 8 000 ans. Les laves de ce volcan, et du système volcanique associé s'étendent jusqu'à la mer et constituent l'essentiel du sol du parc. Ce sol retient mal l'eau et est donc un terrain difficile pour le développement de la végétation, souvent limitée à un épais tapis de mousses. En revanche, la faune est relativement riche pour le pays, en particulier sur la côte avec de nombreux oiseaux marins profitant des eaux riches en poisson baignant la péninsule.

Ces eaux poissonneuses sont aussi ce qui attira les habitants, la péninsule étant peuplée dès la colonisation de l'Islande au IXe siècle. Pendant un temps, le village de Dritvík au sud du parc fut même l'un des principaux ports de pêche du pays. Ce village, comme le reste du parc, fut abandonné au XIXe siècle. Le parc national est maintenant avant tout un site touristique, les nombreux visiteurs venant admirer les paysages uniques de la côte et le volcan Snæfellsjökull popularisé en particulier par l'histoire de Voyage au centre de la Terre.

[luxurytravelcurator]

The path to the Black Beaches of #Djupalonssandur. DAY 05 off to a full day tour of the #Snaefellsnes Peninsula. Following Jules Verne steps, to the Center of the Earth - Snaefellsnes National Park and the Volcano #Snaefelljokull. Last full day in Iceland. My first visit and research trip to #Iceland, commissioned by one of my #VIP Clients, to explore, curate and discover towards their June 2020 Family Trip. Flying @americanair #FirstClass Domestic and #BusinessClass International. I will be based in #Reykjavik and taking day tours to #Jokulsarlon + #GoldenCircle + #BlueLagoon + #Snaefellsnes Peninsula & Waterfalls and beyond. Host hotels @retreat.bluelagoon + Apotek Hotel and Exeter Hotel by @keahotels. The Journey begins... . . . . . #GPSCarlosMeliaICELAND #Europe #Islandia My mission is to transform Tourists into Travelers experiencing unique travel experiences. Luxury #TravelCurator, global bespoke #TravelAgent, #TravelBlogger, Concierge, Hospitality Consultant and #WeddingPlanner has earned, after over 25 years of experience, the mote of “Little Marco Polo”. Founder of @LGTNetwork Luxury #GayTravel Network. Member of @VirtuosoLTD Luxury #TravelAdvisor @FirstinService @TzellTravel @TravelLeaders #Jetsetter Globetrotter #BonVivant curates the world of #Luxury #Travel & #Lifestyle by experience, one destination at the time. #Travel #Hotel Restaurant & Airline reviews. Follow, read and share my travel experiences worldwide at CarlosMeliaBlog #TravelBlog #LuxuryTravel ... www.carlosmelia.com (at Djúpalónssandur Dritvík) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3R7GbtnkyY/?igshid=xuhk5bfgdlxf

[habitablez0ne-blog]

Solitude. #iceland 🌊 🌊 #blacksandbeach #solitude #beach #ocean #icelandtravel #icelandscape #icelandroadtrip #guidetoiceland #mystopover #solotravel #solotrip #solotraveller #worlderlust #wanderlust #wheniniceland #travel #travelphotography #travelgram #nature #naturephotography #nature_lovers #naturewalks #earthpix #instapassport #getlost #passportready #liveintrepid #traveltheworld #globetrotter (at Djúpalónssandur Dritvík) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hKIB6g-VX/?igshid=1hiscg55wbjrx

[delphinidin4]

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I GOOGLED AND HOLY SHIT

WATERFALL

BASALT COLUMNS

ARNARSTAPI ARCH

(IT’S BIGGER THAN IT LOOKS)

AND THEN THERE’S THIS DUDE

HIS NAME IS BÁRÐUR SNÆFELLSÁS, WHICH IS SIMPLY FANTASTIC. BUT THERE’S MORE!

Bárður Snæfellsás was the settler of this area, half a troll and half a man, but his mother was human. Bárður, who was Dumbsson, sailed from Norway with his men in the 9th century and came ashore in Djúpalón and Dritvík cove. He then built his farm at Laugarbrekka further east on Snæfellsnes and became a prominent figure on the peninsula.Bárður was the one who gave the name to the Snæfellsnes peninsula when he saw the snow and ice on Snæfellsjökull glacier, which hovers over this part of the peninsula. He called it Snjófellsnes peninsula. Both words "snær" and "snjór" mean snow in Icelandic. It was later changed to Snæfellsnes. (source, which has tons of info and pictures of the area!)

WHAT THE FUCK, GUYS. HOW DID ICELAND GET ALL THE COOL SHIT??

Arnarstapi is a small fishing village in the southern part of the Snæfellsnes peninsula and at the foot of Mount Stapafell. 

Arnarstapi is a place in Snæfellsnes that should not be missed!  And there is a 2.5 km long hiking trail leading through the lava field between Arnarstapi to Hellnar which is a great fun to walk

[patricktenbrink10]

Djúpalónssandur beach by Carsten ten Brink Via Flickr: Djúpalónssandur beach area, known for its black pebbles and for the rusty remnants of the shipwreck of the British trawler, The Epine GY7, which was wrecked east of Dritvík cove on the night of 13th March 1948.

[northsouthnorth]

Turf and Fire at Snæfellsnes

We left both our pickup and the bad weather at Vík, and headed over towards the west in a pretty cramped Skoda. Especially the last 2 hours must have been lovely for the guys in the back, with a week worth of food on their knees. After the stormy week of camping in Vik, the house that we could stay in at the peninsula was a welcome change. Still pretty tired from all the rockwork from the previous week, we were pretty happy to go on a nice walk along the coast on our day off on Sunday.

I met Jón as well that weekend, who gave me the tasks for the weekend. On Monday we started pretty enthusiastic with separating the turf from a few pretty big dirt piles. And not a chance that that task was done after that; we spent hours distributing the leftover turf over the area and covering it up with the turf again. Another spot that needed some extra dirt was the pretty aggressive zip line in the area. That thing launches tourists up pretty quickly, and we needed to make their landing a bit softer and less rocky. The best part of this job was of course trying out the zipline to see if we had made any difference or not. We also got the mucktruck, a motorised wheelbarrow, started and managed to speed our process up quite a bit with that thing. That is, until we emptied the tank within 3 dirt runs and had no fuel whatsoever left..

As we were about to put our tool down for the day, the rangers got a call from Jón, who had just discovered a fire. We all jumped in our cars and drove off, first still thinking it was just a little fire that just needed some good whacking with a shovel. However, when I drove over one of the first hills on the road, we could see a massive cloud of smoke above the lavafield. I don't think I've ever driven this fast in Iceland before. The fact that it hadn't rained for a while and the strong wind made the fire spread pretty fast. After about 2 hours of slamming the burning moss with spades and wet Hessian bags, it seemed more it less under control and we could head home to take care of our stinking clothes and hair. I definitely hope that the walker that dropped a cigarettebud in the dry moss saw the smoke clouds behind him/her and realised what that had caused. One positive thing here is though that Thibauds butt made the national news: http://www.ruv.is/frett/eldur-i-mosa-rakinn-til-sigarettu and http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2017/06/13/fire_in_national_park_started_by_a_cigarette/

We got to sleep a little bit longer the next day, before we had to get back to our dirt-spreading business, this time with a fully-fuelled mucktruck. Towards the evening we were finally done with this job and ready to go on yet another adventure. First we headed down into an underground lavatube, on the same guided tour that I've written about in previous blogs. Then, after a quick dinner we headed out for our second mission of the night: exploring the canyon Raudfjeldgjá. We got further in than my team last year managed, and it was still as spooky, with dead birds floating in the stream and movements out of the corner of your eye that could just be the half-troll Bárður. I got my trousers soaking wet underneath one of the small waterfall as I spotted Grace and Thibaud whilst they were climbing on some of the trickier sections. Happy to all come safe back to the house again and enjoy some home-made cake.

On Wednesday we had to clean that same sheepshit-shed below the visitors centre that I had to work on last year. The only difference now was that the shit had finally dried up and just needed to be shoveled out. This did cause some nice sheepshit-scented dustclouds which gave us the best taste in our mouths ever.. At least it was a quick job and we were done just when the rangers arrived. Jón dragged me along with him to the site we would work on in the following week, meaning I had to leave my team for longer than an hour since I first met them. Is that the feeling that a mum gets when she brings her kid do daycare for the very first time? Jón got me over my empty-nest feelings with his life-stories, and soon we got to Grábrok. The drive there was longer than the time we spent together with the local ranger, Tóta, on looking at the trail, but the weather was nice and I had no complaints at all. I had to leave Jón to drive home alone as I got a ride back from Elvar who came over for a quick visit and gave us a hand with the job the next morning.

That job was probably the worst job for me; putting together some shelves for the workshop. Elvar and Thibaud were of course annoyingly good at this and could probably have done it blindfolded, whilst I was getting more and more frustrated with this worse-than-Ikea piece of s@!t.. Relieved to go outside later that afternoon to clean the beach at Dritvík. Jón had invited us and the rangers for dinner at his place, which was incredibly cosy. Needless to say that we all struggled a bit the next morning to get up for work and do our last task for the week; sorting out wood and old ecogrid and carrying it down to the now clean sheepshit-shed.

We decided not to leave the peninsula until Sunday, so we had the whole Saturday for some last explorations in this beautiful area. A local guide told us that we would probably kill ourselves if we would head up the glacier that day, so instead er hiked up to the treasure chest of the half-troll Bárður; Bárðarkista. Unfortunately we didn't find the actual treasure - we were told that to be able to find it, your mum should have given a virgin-birth to you at 17 and only fed you horsemilk for the first 14 years of your life. On top of that, you can never have had a single happy thought. We did get a nice hike out of it though, and me and the girls went on to explore yet another cave in the area. By the next morning, we had gotten our truck back and were on our way to a week of work and wildcamping at the Grábrok crater - more on that very soon!

All cramped up with our food

Trying to stay out of the wind on our hike

Thibaud in his beachwear

Pretty tough being a leader sometimes..

Dirt-distributors at work

Pája Powerrrr

Getting smoked like a piece of lamb next to the fire

Beach-cleaning with Grace

Thibaud and his new outfit

And more beach cleaning..

On our way to the treasure chest!

[sylviaontour]

In Island sind die Sehenswürdigkeiten nicht riesig angeschrieben, zum Glück hat uns Kontiki alles im Reisehandbuch notiert, aber auch dennoch passiert es schnell, dass man an etwas vorbeifährt. So wollten wir heute bei Ytri Tunga die Seehundekolonie anschauen, nun ja diese Strasse hatten wir verpasst.

Was wir jedoch nicht verpasst haben war die Küstenwanderung zwischen Arnarstapi und Hellnar. Während 2.5 km sieht man Lavagestein und wunderschöne Küstenabschnitte.

Auch verpasst hatten wir Djúpalónssandur und als wir das gemerkt haben, sind wir zurück gefahren:) Wenn man auf der Strasse 574 bei der Mini-Beschriftung Richtung Dritvík ans Meer fahrt, findet man einige rostige Schiffsteile im schwarzen Sand , aber auch eine schöne Aussicht.

Eigentlich fuhren wir den ganzen Tag am Gletscher Snaefellsjökull entlang, nur sich zeigen wollte er uns nicht, obwohl die Sonne heute wirklich fleissig war.

Unsere heutige Übernachtung war in Stykkishólmur, im Hotel Stykkishólmur. Auch so klein das Städtchen scheinen mag, hier gibt es auch noch das einte oder andere zum anschauen. Wir waren beim Leuchtturm (nur 83 Treppen) und hatten von dort eine schöne Aussicht über die Stadt.

Ausserhalb kann man jedoch auf den Helgafell, bekommt eine noch schönere Aussicht und wenn man beim hochgehen schweigt und nie zurückschaut, hat man drei Wünsche frei, aber nur wenn man bei der Ruine steht und Richtung Osten schaut:) Ich berichte dann exklusiv bei sylviaontour.ch ob es geklappt habt:=) Vorerst reichte mir die Aussicht.

Halbinsel Snaefellsnes In Island sind die Sehenswürdigkeiten nicht riesig angeschrieben, zum Glück hat uns Kontiki alles im Reisehandbuch notiert, aber auch dennoch passiert es schnell, dass man an etwas vorbeifährt.

[themutator]

[luxurytravelcurator]

The path to the Black Beaches of #Djupalonssandur. DAY 05 off to a full day tour of the #Snaefellsnes Peninsula. Following Jules Verne steps, to the Center of the Earth - Snaefellsnes National Park and the Volcano #Snaefelljokull. Last full day in Iceland. My first visit and research trip to #Iceland, commissioned by one of my #VIP Clients, to explore, curate and discover towards their June 2020 Family Trip. Flying @americanair #FirstClass Domestic and #BusinessClass International. I will be based in #Reykjavik and taking day tours to #Jokulsarlon + #GoldenCircle + #BlueLagoon + #Snaefellsnes Peninsula & Waterfalls and beyond. Host hotels @retreat.bluelagoon + Apotek Hotel and Exeter Hotel by @keahotels. The Journey begins... . . . . . #GPSCarlosMeliaICELAND #Europe #Islandia My mission is to transform Tourists into Travelers experiencing unique travel experiences. Luxury #TravelCurator, global bespoke #TravelAgent, #TravelBlogger, Concierge, Hospitality Consultant and #WeddingPlanner has earned, after over 25 years of experience, the mote of “Little Marco Polo”. Founder of @LGTNetwork Luxury #GayTravel Network. Member of @VirtuosoLTD Luxury #TravelAdvisor @FirstinService @TzellTravel @TravelLeaders #Jetsetter Globetrotter #BonVivant curates the world of #Luxury #Travel & #Lifestyle by experience, one destination at the time. #Travel #Hotel Restaurant & Airline reviews. Follow, read and share my travel experiences worldwide at CarlosMeliaBlog #TravelBlog #LuxuryTravel ... www.carlosmelia.com (at Djúpalónssandur Dritvík) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3R65bKHgv3/?igshid=1gc9rjqwxibsg

[luxurytravelcurator]

The path to the Black Beaches of #Djupalonssandur. DAY 05 off to a full day tour of the #Snaefellsnes Peninsula. Following Jules Verne steps, to the Center of the Earth - Snaefellsnes National Park and the Volcano #Snaefelljokull. Last full day in Iceland. My first visit and research trip to #Iceland, commissioned by one of my #VIP Clients, to explore, curate and discover towards their June 2020 Family Trip. Flying @americanair #FirstClass Domestic and #BusinessClass International. I will be based in #Reykjavik and taking day tours to #Jokulsarlon + #GoldenCircle + #BlueLagoon + #Snaefellsnes Peninsula & Waterfalls and beyond. Host hotels @retreat.bluelagoon + Apotek Hotel and Exeter Hotel by @keahotels. The Journey begins... . . . . . #GPSCarlosMeliaICELAND #Europe #Islandia My mission is to transform Tourists into Travelers experiencing unique travel experiences. Luxury #TravelCurator, global bespoke #TravelAgent, #TravelBlogger, Concierge, Hospitality Consultant and #WeddingPlanner has earned, after over 25 years of experience, the mote of “Little Marco Polo”. Founder of @LGTNetwork Luxury #GayTravel Network. Member of @VirtuosoLTD Luxury #TravelAdvisor @FirstinService @TzellTravel @TravelLeaders #Jetsetter Globetrotter #BonVivant curates the world of #Luxury #Travel & #Lifestyle by experience, one destination at the time. #Travel #Hotel Restaurant & Airline reviews. Follow, read and share my travel experiences worldwide at CarlosMeliaBlog #TravelBlog #LuxuryTravel ... www.carlosmelia.com (at Djúpalónssandur Dritvík) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3R6oJaHGde/?igshid=12dqq9rdmgrz0

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The path to the Black Beaches of #Djupalonssandur. DAY 05 off to a full day tour of the #Snaefellsnes Peninsula. Following Jules Verne steps, to the Center of the Earth - Snaefellsnes National Park and the Volcano #Snaefelljokull. Last full day in Iceland. My first visit and research trip to #Iceland, commissioned by one of my #VIP Clients, to explore, curate and discover towards their June 2020 Family Trip. Flying @americanair #FirstClass Domestic and #BusinessClass International. I will be based in #Reykjavik and taking day tours to #Jokulsarlon + #GoldenCircle + #BlueLagoon + #Snaefellsnes Peninsula & Waterfalls and beyond. Host hotels @retreat.bluelagoon + Apotek Hotel and Exeter Hotel by @keahotels. The Journey begins... . . . . . #GPSCarlosMeliaICELAND #Europe #Islandia My mission is to transform Tourists into Travelers experiencing unique travel experiences. Luxury #TravelCurator, global bespoke #TravelAgent, #TravelBlogger, Concierge, Hospitality Consultant and #WeddingPlanner has earned, after over 25 years of experience, the mote of “Little Marco Polo”. Founder of @LGTNetwork Luxury #GayTravel Network. Member of @VirtuosoLTD Luxury #TravelAdvisor @FirstinService @TzellTravel @TravelLeaders #Jetsetter Globetrotter #BonVivant curates the world of #Luxury #Travel & #Lifestyle by experience, one destination at the time. #Travel #Hotel Restaurant & Airline reviews. Follow, read and share my travel experiences worldwide at CarlosMeliaBlog #TravelBlog #LuxuryTravel ... www.carlosmelia.com (at Djúpalónssandur Dritvík) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3R7syunAAz/?igshid=8cisjxy75q8e