It’s our second day and we are driving along the south west coast, with lots to see today.

The weather forecast is showing plenty of rain and ironically our first stops are…waterfalls, we may be getting a bit wet today!

As it happens, we were lucky enough to exploit some dry spells to see much of what we had planned, grey skies aside.

Our first stop was the Seljalandsfoss waterfall. It’s the main fall amongst a series that run down the mountain side fed by a glacial river above.

A cool feature of this waterfall is that you can walk behind it and get close to the cascading water as it makes its way down a 60 mtr drop.

As you walk behind the falls, the sound of falling water hitting the pool at the bottom is intense. It’s a never ending torrent of water crashing down in front of you.

You also get rather wet….it’s great!

Close by are other waterfalls, with one set behind the rocks in an open top cave.

You can clamber through the gaps in the mountain to see this amazing ‘temple’ of water.

Guidebooks and Chatgpt guided us to our next stop, another even more impressive waterfall.

This beauty is called Skogafoss and it is really impressive. You can’t get too close to the bottom of the falls but there is a walkway to view it from above and see the river’s path to the edge.

Skogafoss is an attractive waterfall, enhanced by it’s wonderful setting.

We even saw some blue sky poking through the clouds whilst we were there!

With a few waterfalls under our belts we headed to a glacier nearby.

Iceland hosts the largest glacier in Europe and around 10% of the country is covered by glaciers.

Our visit was to the Sólheimajökull glacier.

The glacier melt water pool had lots of ice chunks floating free and slowly melting.

In the picture below you can see the end point of the glacier, discoloured by rocks and also volcanic ash from prior eruptions in Iceland.

It is certainly worth a visit and it’s easy to access, no big hike required. We will be seeing another glacier later in the week which we will walk on.

Our final two stops are close to the town of Vik where a pretty church sits on a hill above the town.

The town has a large black sand beach, black as it is formed from solidified lava which has since been eroded into the sand we see today.

There are plenty of horses in Iceland and lots of opportunity to ride them, we caught a group on the beach.

Our final stop was to the Dyrholaey Peninsula to see a rock arch.

It’s large enough for boats to sail through it and apparently one daredevil pilot even flew through it in 1993!

We had been lucky with the weather until now, we were hit by a burst of torrential rain impacting my ability to capture this well. Apologies for the poor picture quality for this set…

The area is also known for Puffin’s however they had since migrated or were hiding from the rain.

A busy but highly enjoyable day ends. Tomorrow we head further along the south coast on our trip around Iceland.