Glacier lagoon, ice beach, and lamb

Currently, we are sitting in the dining room and main reception area of the sheep farm where we are staying for the next three nights. It's an unbelievable 360 degree view of the entire area with mountains, farm land, ocean, and lots of snow.

This morning we had a typical Icelandic breakfast of yogurt from a milk carton, muesli and corn flakes with coffee... Not so tasty but it did the job. I had some of the geyser bread that we bought from the dairy farm on our first night near godafoss... It's similar to a dense muffin but as bread.

We stopped at the N1 gas station and talked to the local guides who are supposed to lead an ice cave tour for us later this week but they are completely sold out so they are trying to squeeze us in as they are fans of SmugMug! Keeping our fingers crossed...as they are crossed for aurora tonight.

Off to the glacier lagoon and ice beach. It looks totally different from last year and you can see the recession of the glacier. The ice beach is in a different spot and there are barely any large icebergs to photograph! 

We hiked to a spot along the glacier lagoon that was nice last year and flew the drone and took some shots. We met up with another photographer friend of Aarons and he tagged along. Super nice guy from Toronto and he was shooting a phase one, so cool! We even took a drone selfie!

(That's a screen shot from the computer)

We were going to hike out to another spot along the lagoon but decided to do that in the morning when the light is better. So we made some lunch, chips and salsa and peanut butter and jelly and then decided to drive 35 minutes to check in to our hotel. We had planned to drive back to the lagoon to photograph sunset. We had to check into our hotel during certain hours so we thought we would check in early and then leave. However, we got here and fell in love! So we decided not to drive more and found some spots to photograph sunset and hopefully the aurora tonight!

The hotel is just a few rooms on a farm and for dinner we were served lamb that was grown here, local beer and some French chocolate cake. There is a French couple living here that does the cooking so they made us a chocolate cake as the boys were craving dessert. A pretty nice day as the sun was out! We are hoping the weather cooperates for a few more days, but we'll see! There is only wifi in the common area here so we are all just sitting around a table talking, drinking Icelandic beer and catching up on wifi related things as we wait for the aurora.