An adventure!

Yesterday Beth and I went on a ´day excursion´ that was called the Black and Blue. Its called that because it is caving and snorkeling, all in one fun filled day (thumbs up). I usually don´t go for expensive, touristy, trip things, but this one looked fun so we thought it would be good times.

So it began by driving out to þingvellier (thats probably spelled wrong) which is a national park type deal. There we got into our dry suits, and then our otter suit exteriors. SO funny by the way. The interior layer is like wearing a suit that is made out of a sleeping bag, and the outer layer is this bulkyish dry suit (kind of like a wet suit but a bit different) that had very tight wrist things, and neck thing. It also had built in rubber boots to keep your feetsies dry.

We put on some more stuff, and then hop into the coolest thing ever. Its the split between the american continent and the european one. The water filters down from a glacier and takes 30 years to get into this crack, which we then swim in. Oh yeah, the fact that it is glacier water DOES in fact mean that it is hella cold (hence the super suit). Anyways, we just kind of drifted down stream and got to look at all of the awesome down in the ground water stuff. The visiblity is 100 meters there, so it was super crystal clear.

After that adventure, we get out of our dry suits (which kept us very dry) and go down the path a bit to our next stop, the cave. The cave was formed from lava a few thousand years ago (like 10 000?) so it is a lava tube cave. It was super rocky and hard to walk through, but also extremely neat. The guide was cool and had a lot of good facts and stories, which made it pretty rad.

I don´t know which I liked better, but good times were definitely had.