Iceland Southern Shore Adventure

So this was the first of 2 day trips I had booked for Iceland. I was picked up at about 9am and we headed off down to the south coast. The first stop we made was at the Skogarfoss waterfall. The tour guide remembered that they were making a film there but it was no problem as they weren't shooting when we were there. They had pretty cool trucks though:

I had a bit of a yarn to a couple of guys and they said they were filming shots of the waterfall for Thor 2. Apparently they were going to make it 10 times wider and 10 times higher in the movie. So keep an eye out for something that looks kinda like this:

But probably without all of the tourists taking pictures in front of it. Then we drove to the Glacier that was feeding the waterfall and we could walk right up to it:

All of the black stuff is ash left over from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano that errupted in 2010 and had all the planes grounded. The eruption made quite a bit of a mess of the countryside and there was a pretty big clean up job to fix it. Another picture I took at the glacial "snout":

There are lots of sweet stories about trolls in Norse folklaw and the story goes that they have all been turned to stone now. Apparently in the photo below the islands on the left are a troll that was turned to stone while dragging a boat ashore. You gotta use your imagination a luttle but.

We stopped in at Vik for lunch where I had a really good burger. I think they used Big Mac sauce in it! Then we headed further around the coast to a little church that sits out close to the sea on a cliff, I think this was the southern most point in Iceland. The sky was doing random shit so I took this photo:

And this:

I took this at the edge of the cliff beside the church:

Quite recently a guy flew a plane through the hole. Our guide was a bit confused as to how they did it as the cliff is so close to the hole. Would have been quite impressive I would imagine.

I took another couple of photos for good measure:

Then we went to the Skogarfoss waterfall. It was really cool as where it falls is down an old sea cliff and the cliff had eroded quite a bit so now you can walk behind the waterfall. I searched and searched for the secret stuff that is always stored behind waterfalls but I couldn't find any of it. Probably already got picked up by another tourist, but I'm surprised it hadn't re-spawned yet. Anyways, here is a photo of it:

And one from behind the water fall:

In the evening I worked on my inner introvert and had some drinks by myself in my room before going in search of some live music. It was bloody cold outside (about 4 degrees I think) but there was quite a few people around. I found a pretty heavy band playing and listened to the for a bit. There were lots of locals around and it turns out all males here look like Thor. Hilarious. I had a couple of drinks (500 Icelandic Kronar for a pint, 1NZD is about 100 ISK) which were not as expensive as I thought they would be. The band was nothing amazing but they were extremely loud, I might try to remember to wear my earplugs tomorrow night but I hope I don't get beaten up for it. On the way home I had dinner from the hot dog stand again. The hot-dogs really are that good!