Hvammur

Tuesday morning we woke up at the campsite at the Flokalunder Hotel. Dusty found a way to get a free shower and Jane went into the restaurant and negotiated a price for three toasts and coffees. We headed for Hvammur. The remaining coastline of the West Fjords continued to be amazing. We often stopped on the road to take pictures. When we arrived in Hvammur near Budardalar, even though the church is well off the road and behind trees there is a sign at the head of the driveway with an old picture of the church and the house. In the historical notes on the sign it says only 15 priests held the position at this church from the Reformation to 1944. Steinn Torfas Steinsen is listed as the 13^th from 1870-1881. Dusty took a picture of the scroll on the wall inside the locked church. We only found one Steinsson headstone in the graveyard. It was a person named GESTUR from the mid-1800’s.

We left Hvammur and headed for Grundarfjordur to see the mountain Kirkjufell and the Kirkjufellsfoss water falls. They were amazing and right at the road. We carried on through Olafsvik and to the Snaefellsjokull National Park, which was an amazing display of lava beds. There is a water well there that was lost for 50 years (filled with sand) and found and uncovered by the grandson of the last woman to live there. He came back and remembered the exact location. The well has a huge Right Whale bone at its entrance. We climbed the Saxholl volcano crater and after leaving the park enjoyed the formations at Amarstapi.