With Budir as our headquarters, we spent some time wandering around the Snaefellsnes Peninsula. I don't think it's quite true but I can imagine Snaefellsnes means "rugged coastline" in an old Norse tongue.

Nancy and I spent quite some time hiking along the coastline. What the pictures don't show is that the wind was blowing about 50 mph. While we were hiking, some bicyclists rode up and parked a little ways from the car. The wind was blowing so hard, it blew their bikes over. Later as we were driving down the highway, we met a motorcycle coming the other way. The crosswind was blowing so hard, the motorcyclist needed to lean about 20% toward the wind to keep from being blown over. With wind-chill, it was fairly cold, but the sun warmed our disposition and we enjoyed the day.

These photos were taken in August 2007 mostly with a Nikon D200.