Hot showers in the morning meant waking up to the smell of rotten eggs. It’s actually not that bad once you get used to it. However, experiencing it for the first time means you are either shocked into full consciousness or end up fainting. Wide awake then we set off on what was to be a spectacular day.

Sun and blue skies throughout helped us get over the patchy weather yesterday. It wasn’t this that made the day special. We covered a lot of ground and at every turn we saw some breathtaking scenery. Today was definitely picture postcard day. We got to see waterfalls, rainbows, mirror lakes, snow covered mountains with glaciers and waves crashing against ice on an ashen beach.

Pick of the day for me was a lighthouse on-top a cliff edge at Dyrhólaey. We were there initially to visit a natural arch in the rocks but ended up the wrong side of it for the time of day seeing it only as a silhouette against the bright morning sun. The light was magnificent though and turned the dead grass around a wonderful golden brown. The lighthouse, and a smattering of outhouses, with nothing else in sight for miles gave me a sense of remoteness and planted a seed in my mind that would inform the rest of this photographic journey.