Day 3, Part 2 Storm arrives at Snaefellsjokull National Park

            As we were snapping the our last pics at Arnarstapi, the weather began turning worse and worse. We had read that a good size storm was bearing down on southern Iceland and so we prepared to turn north and hop our goal for the day was out of the storm zone but we had no real way of knowing. We headed back to our suv and began making our way around Snaefellesjokull the large glacier topped volcano that gives the entire area its name.Through rain and wind and lava field we drove not able to really see the mountains due to the cloud cover and persistant fogs gripping their sides.
           We made our first stop after Arnarstapi at the monument of Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir who gave birth in Vinland to Snorri Þorfinnsson who was the first known person of European descent to be born in North America. The monument is rather small but its interesting place with views of the coastal plain and the ocean was well. By now it was pourning so alot of the photos were full of water spots as is a common theme today.

Our next stop was an area known as the Londrangar basaslt cliffs which was very near the vistor center for the national park. Theses massive formations are remnants of a large crater that has since collapsed on itself. On a side note this is where first saw something that really irritates me, people being absolutely stupid and going into places they should not have to get the perfect picture or selfie. There are signs and in most places borders to protect you and the local plant life that in some areas are incredibly delicate. But time and time again we saw people acting stupid.

looks like a ship and the other column looks like there is a face, at least to me.

From Londrangar we made our way around the pennisula and back to Grundarfjordur near where we took our picks of Kirkjufell the day before. The weather was getting worse by the minute and unfortunately we had could not see many things. The upside is that we will have to return to this peninsula and hope for clear weather or at least less extreme.