Nov 4, 2025
Hotel: Hotel Magma, Kirkjubaejarklaustur
Last night we had beautiful views of the sunset and the cloudy sky. We had brief peeks of the aurora just before 9pm, but the brightest streaks disappeared before we could get photos. Towards morning we saw the moon set. Sleeping in a clear igloo was great, and they were very comfortable.
We headed into Hella fairly early, stopping for coffee and pastries at the local bakery. We stopped for a chilly Caves of Hella tour, not natural caves but structures carved by people before the Vikings arrived. It was interesting, but long winded and full of conjecture that was presented as fact. Afterwards we headed towards Vik, stopping to view some magnificent waterfalls. In Vik we had lunch at a cold cafe, then went to see the basalt cliffs, black sand, and incredible pounding surf at Reynisfjara Beach, while staying out of range of dangerous “sneaker waves”. At times, it looked like water was shooting 40’ in the air from the crashing surf. On the other side of the spit were the calm waters of Dryholaos lagoon. It was mesmerizing. We drove about an hour further, leaving the rolling hills and cliffs thru what looked like flood planes of moss covered rocks. Then we reached another row of hills by our hotel.
Our hotel consists of small units with green roofs, each with a wall of windows facing a small lake. After we arrived, there were a dozen or more white swans on the lake. We are told they aren’t always there. We dined at our hotel and played a couple hands of gin rummy afterwards. It is cloudy and predictions indicate a low probability of aurora tonight.
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