Water, water everywhere - Iceland's south coast

Off we set on our journey around the whole coast of Iceland.  First stop was the Seljalandsfoss Waterfall.  It's a huge waterfall and you can take a short hiking trail right behind the waterfall itself.

Driving further we came to the Skogafoss Waterfall.  In this part of the trip the driving was up to me - and I had to deal with an automatic car and driving on the other side of the road, but I think I managed this OK (I was thankful it was just one one and not a busy one).  This waterfall is about the same height as the previous one but much wider.  We hiked first to the bottom, and then up an enormous staircase (500 steps I think) to the top.  Again we were so lucky that the day that had started off a bit wet and drizzly, had turned into a lovely warm and sunny day.

Onwards we drove to our next stopping point which was the snout of the Vatnajokul Glacier.  Again it was a short walk from where we parked the car to a lake formed by the meltwater from the glacier.   While we stood watching, we heard a guide who was going to take some people up onto the glacier itself talking about global warming and how every year the glacier melts so that in about 10 years the whole area which was once glacier is now just a lake.  He said that what took 100 years to form is being lost every single year, and that one glacier in Iceland has already become extinct.

We then drove right down to the south coast to a beach where we could see puffins - it was extremely windy there  - and then onwards to Reynisfjara beach made up of black sand and then finally onto Vik for the night.  The beaches here are wild and very windy.  The black sand is created by lava mixing with ocean water.  There are huge cliffs, stacks and arches out to see and huge basalt columns.