Hiking & Kayaking Weekend

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[Photos taken 05-07 July 2019, posted online 22 February 2020. The days are getting brighter, finally!]

We spent an active weekend at house #2 on a gorgeous weekend in early July. There was trampolining, hiking (without water or food, silly us!), a water-balloon fight, and kayaking! How lucky we are to have such good friends! (55-ish images)

Friday 05 July 2019

Bjarki and a friend on the tampoline by house #2 in the evening sun.
Dinner, a little earlier.
Bjarki, midair.
The handy men experimenting with different ways to keep bite-happy midget flies out of the house.
Duct-tape proved to be the best method to stick the midget-netting Finnur had ordered to the window, as windows in Iceland generally don’t come with fly-netting apparatus.
Bedtime, what bedtime? 🙂
Emma enjoying fly-weapon #2: a very powerful fan!

Saturday 06 July 2019

Agnes and myself decided to go out for a walk, and ended up knee-deep in grass as we attempted a “short-cut”!
Agnes emerging from the bush! We failed spectacularly in finding any actual paths.
Finally, up on high!
Looking a little further to the left.
Proof I was there!
A panorama 🙂
We naively forgot to bring any water along for our walk, and were getting rather parched when we finally found a small stream.
Sweet, sweet water with hopefully zero dead sheep lying upstream.
We also failed in bringing any kind of snack, but thankfully found a few berries, in spite of the super dry summer.
We saw this seemingly abandoned foundation and decided to investigate.
It was old enough to be mossy…
Two hikers standing on a concrete bunker.
It’s not a bad spot for a house.
The view from the “garage”.
Arty moss-growth, disconnected cables, and old wheelbarrows.
We decided to follow the loopy long-way-around road back to home-base.
Pretty flowers.
An old sign detailing the summer-house zoning rules.
Beach view.
Back at home-base, the day was gorgeous enough for water-balloons!
Oh, yeah!
Mmmm… watermelons!
Meanwhile, the handy men had finished the flooring in the guesthouse!!
And thus, it was my turn to populate the room with stuff…

Sunday 07 July 2019

A new 8 am day.
Part of the kitchen window view.
The is no morning without screen-time.
Our guests had brought their own kayak! Ragnar supervised the kiddos as they took turns trying it out.
A happy Anna after taking her turn.
Water is forever fun!
The lake is very shallow quite far into it.
Emma trying to wait patiently for her turn.
Mr. Kayak.
Soon it was Emma’s turn.
Enjoying her ride.
Oh look, a flower!
The girls playing in the pebbles as yet another kiddie had her turn.
There were a few boats sailing about, but they mostly kept their distance. It’s a very long lake!
Agnes venturing pretty far away.
Then it was my turn…
Emma apparently slightly concerned about her mother…
Time to walk back up the hill.
Anna had the big camera while walking back.
The ever imposing Troll’s horn (Skessuhorn).
So green.
So purple.
A ruddy river.
So soft looking, but do not walk there. You’ll get wet.
Pretty flowers.
The last job of the day before departure was to take down the tv antenna, as all tv is now off of the mobile internet anyway, or downloaded pre-departure, and all the antenna was doing was being a place for birds to sit, and shit on the deck…! Thanks Ragnar!! 🙂