Saturday night outing.

We woke up after a 5 hour nap (8:30 pm icelandic time) and headed out to grab some food and see if we could see the Aurora Boriallus.  Our first stop was a weird Icelandic version of a KFC.  After some googling of the English version of their menu we successfully ordered a couple of chicken sandwiches and headed out to a local lighthouse. 

The Grotta lighthouse was too crowded with people and cars that we ended up driving out to the Bridge Between Continents where we knew it would be dark. On the way out there Rachel asked me if Iceland had any native preditors, other than artic foxes, and less than 10 seconds later (as we discussed it) an arctic fox ran across the road in front of us.  The artic fox center up in the West Fjords is closed until May, so we didn't think we would get to see any. :)

At the Bridge we didn't see any Aurora since it was too cloudy but the moon was pretty cool, so we took several pictures before heading back to the hotel for the night. 

Tomorrow is an early start since we have a 9am guided tour through a lava cave. 

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  1. QiaraOctober 19, 2024 at 11:09 PM

    Wooohoooo! Arctic fox!
    And the ice rainbow around the moon is stunning!

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