Not having a plan is pretty much how Jason and I like to run our life… so after my tentative list of random shenanigans ran out in 2015 (see what I did there?) we just decided to wing it on the first day of 2016 and see what we could find.  Having explored by foot pretty much all that we could of Reykjavik, we got into the car and went a little further out of town. (fun fact: pretty much everything is closed new years day…) We ended up at the Grotta Island Lighthouse. Not too far from downtown, but a very quiet place to explore all the way out at the end of the peninsula. We were the first people to make tracks in the fresh snow from the night before.  It looks like at low tide and calm wind you might be able to walk out to the lighthouse, but with waves breaking over the rock wall, we didn’t go anywhere near it! Lovely place to watch the sunrise.

We enjoyed our little pocket of sunshine and then the weather turned back into active snow and wind, so we left the lighthouse and continued on to the other random destinations on our list!