Kirkjubæjarklaustur
We were planing to cross the river Skafta to get to Kirkjubæfjarklaustur, but wen we got there we ran into a little bit of difficulty. We fist hit it at a section that was not a good place to cross. I steeped out 5 ft and decided it was too strong. John tried another section that was a little calmer and got out 3 ft before getting waist deep. So we walked up steam about a mile and found this section. Its was about 40 ft across and the current was strong, but we felt it was our best bet. I got 3/4 of the way across when the water level went above my hip belt and way extremely strong. My pack was working like a sail and i was only getting deeper. I had to turn back. By the time I reached the shore I was laughing/crying hysterically in fear.
This is rougher section of Skafta. We saw one section that pushed all the water into 15 ft across. The rapid we shooting up 6 to 8 ft.
We decided to try to cross the section in the fist picture in the morning wen the water was lower. We woke up at 6am and looked at the water level and it had only dropped 2-3 in There was no way we could cross it so we hiked on.
As we go closer to Kirkjubæjarklaustur. We had to cross though a lot of farms. This picture shows a field for sheep and horse grassing.
These are Icelandic horses. The came right up to us.
I thought this one was going to eat me. This is not zoomed in.
Grass roofs are fairly common in Iceland although mostly used for keeping sheep warm in the winter. This one is a historical house, for people, in Kirkjubæjarklaustur.
