HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN BEHIND A WATERFALL?

After a dinner of eggs, sausages and bread, we played a few games of Uno and crashed. Nights are quite cool (10 celsius/50°F) and like everywhere on this trip, the beds only have super-thick down comforters. We left the window open but it was still quite warm…too warm, under all that down.

I had been planning this trip for many months, surfing many many websites, reading blogs of locals, hikers and other visitors, and checking Trip Advisor (with a grain of salt). The result was a large Excel spreadsheet with multiple options for each day.

Since Bridget and I had been to Iceland 19 years ago, we wanted to not only share it with the kids, but also to see some new things as well. So even though we were only a half hour from Seljalandsfoss (the popular waterfall that you can walk behind) I had found another one nearby that you could also walk behind, but they made it sound like there would be far less visitors…and they were right!

It is called Kvernufoss and it is just a short 1 mile (?) easy walk from the Skogar Museum near Skogafoss Waterfall (we didn’t pay to see the museum…on our last trip here, you could just walk right up to the old farmstead but now you have to pay.)

Quite a cool experience to walk behind a 100-foot waterfall. There were also Northern Fulmars nesting in the crevices of the cliffs on the way in.

I experimented with long exposure images, flash, underexposing, focal lengths and many compositions. I am sharing some of my favorites with you here. [Click on an image to make it full screen for a better viewing experience]

Not the largest waterfall, nor the highest, nor the most impressive, but a waterfall you can really get up close and personal with…without weaving through hoards of tourists. No bus tours here! We maybe saw 20 other visitors during our 1 ½ hour visit.

NEXT: The cozy town of Vik and the World’s Most Dangerous Beach