It turns out we stayed at the beach taking photos longer than we anticipated.  Our goal for today was to drive the entire Reykjanes Peninsula… but we didn’t actually make it that far around (not even close…).  The sun was setting and it was time to begin heading back home.  We could either go back the way we came.. or take a rather sketchy looking road up and over a mountain. Jason, obviously, chose the shady looking one with ice all over it.

However, I suppose I should give Jason some  credit.  The road wasn’t that bad (yet…more on that later) and we ended up at the Krisuvik hot springs and Seltun geothermal area. Why do research when you can just let locations like this surprise you? 😉

We finished our little excursion and carefully made our way over the icy path to the car lest we fall into the boiling mud pits that look suspiciously like something out of Jurassic Park… just as the sun was setting underneath the clouds. Epic sunset.

At this point we’re committed to taking this road because backtracking would take for-ev-er… However this road goes up pretty steep from here on out. It was also extremely icy, full of switchbacks and next to a cliff that goes off into a lake. Excellent. :/ The lake was really pretty though.