June 5 – Southern Coast and the Eastern Fjords

It is another sunny day today, but still very windy.  On the way out of Hof we took a couple photos of the little turf covered church. 

We covered a fair amount of countryside during today's driving.

And we stopped at the Jӧkulsárlón Glacier Lagoon where we had visited during the cruise.  There were a lot of bergs piled up here…

and a lot more along the black sand beach on the other side of the road.

From there we headed off across Skeiðarársandur, the vast sand plain.  It is the largest sand plain in the world at 1600 km³ or about 620 square miles.

On the drive we passed a bright red chair sitting on a rock.  Sort of fun and unexpected.

We stopped for lunch in the town of Djúpivogur, which was one of our ports of call on our cruise.  It had been a cold and overcast day when we were here before so we decided to see it when we had a bit of time and some sun.  The little port with fishing boats was right across from our restaurant...

and a fair number of sea birds.

We also went back to the big port so revisit the artwork “Eggin I Gleðivik”, by Sigurður Guðmundsson…34 stone eggs, each one representing the eggs of a local bird.  

We also had the time to stop by a local house with an extremely eclectic mix of items in the front yard, including some whale skeletons.

Next stop was Petra’s Collection.  Petra Sveinsdóttir was born in 1922 and spent her live collecting stuff…but mostly rocks.  Her offspring have her collection displayed in a beautiful garden...

and also in a building.  The collection is pretty amazing. 

And the garden was beautiful.

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More photos  of Petra's collection
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Then it was some serious driving along the southern coast

and the eastern fjords

before hitting a mountain pass where we ran into rain.  All of the areas were beautiful.