Ice, Ice, Baby

Who knew ice caves flooded, rendering them inaccessible. I didn’t. But I was quick to find out once I learned that the ice cave tour, the whole reason I drove six hours to the Southeastern coast of Iceland, was cancelled.

Due to the unusual amount of rain the previous days to my arrival, the caves were flooded and most tour companies had cancelled quite a few of their tours for the following days. That morning I contacted the tour guide (Arctic Adventures) that took me out on the glacier a few days earlier and found out that they went to a different cave that only they used and that you needed to hike along a glacier to get to.

After booking the tour I had some free time to relax. I decided to drive to see the view from Stokksness and give the Diamond Beach another shot. Overnight, it seemed that chunks of ice from the lagoon and ocean washed up on shore making the beach look like it was covered in blue diamonds. It is amazing how one day the beach can be underwhelming and empty, while the next it is covered with a dazzling amount of ice. I had no plans for the day so I took my time photographing the mini icebergs, trying to take interesting photos with the surf coming in and around the ice. I even tried to take a photo of myself lounging on one of the ice chunks. In the end, the beach certainly lived up to it’s name.