Iceland Day 17

Today started with a three-hour ferry across Breidafjördur Bay to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. Waiting for the ferry Deborah geeked out wishing we’d arranged this geological detour:

On the ferry:

VATNASAFN / LIBRARY OF WATER by Roni Horn is an installation of 24 glass columns containing water collected from ice from some of the major glaciers around Iceland, housed in a former library in the coastal town of Stykkishólmur.

The Snæfellsnes peninsula is the front leg of the reindeer, with Snæfellsjökull, a 700,000-year-old stratovolcano with a glacier covering its summit, at its hoof. Mount Sneffels in Colorado is named after the volcano Snæfell, so Sneffels quickly became our default pronunciation.

Kirkjufell is along the northern cost of the peninsula.

Then we caught our first glimpses of Snæfellsjökull.