buggered off to snæfellsnes for da weekend with jodaz & jonkurteiz to make the most of jonkurteiz’s short visit to iceland

it only took 3 grown men with nothing else to do all day around 72 hours of planning

go fish

eventually settle on a fishing trip to núpá river. it’s situated next to haffjarðará, where filthy rich people hand over obscene amounts of money for a bit of excercise in the outdoors with a long stick

    

settling in & examining the quality of the brew

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the word ‘river’ stretched to its limits

upon inspection, núpá ‘river’ appears to be running out of water & the chances of finding any lifeform in it seem remote at best. this might explain why 3 days in núpá cost less than the people fishing in the adjacent river spend on footware weekly

dis does not stop the avid fishermen for more than 2 hours or so & eventually they embark on a drive up to the old dam/power station to see if they couldn’t at least catch a ghost of a fish

    

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musbile has jeepish tendencies

after an hour or two of the musbile taking the gang wherever they wished, up & down river to try & catch a little something, driving over rough terrain & crossing rivers as if it was a jeep, dey gives up & returns to the palace to throw a few burgers on the bbq & create art out of’em

den an attempt at finishing all the beer & da whiskey too

jodaz takes great pride in his devotion to the cause of finishing the excellent wiskey with a bit of coffee

day 2

da moment dey wakes up, da gang starts talking about fishing some more

in some 6-8 hours, they do

musbile takes them half the way down to the ocean, where dey was actually supposed to find fish

so, next up is about a 2-3 km walk down to where the river is bubbling with fish eager to take any bait & jump up on land. even if all you have for bait is rotten mackerel

with a well timed break, they make it der in about 1,5 hours

    

note the drastic change in sea level in a mere 56 mins…

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trapped!!!

at first it was just cool watching the water rise, but suddenly it dawns upon’em! dey was trapped on a wee island :/

deir only chance of survival seems to be calling the coastguard, quite an expensive exercise indeed

jodaz just kept on fishing as if nothing was going on…

den it comes to’em!

(well, comes to jodaz, actually)

dey must swim back to the mainland!! swim for dear life!!

after a wee bit of experimenting, dat soon gets downgraded to wading

    

there are pics of jonkurteiz & siggimus actually wading across,

but … well … no!! never!!!!

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well, most if not all survived this ordeal, only to face another!

walk of death

walking back to the musbile with two sets of cold, wet balls & one pair of legs in warm boots that reach up to the ear. da terrain was rough; dry, soft & boggy

a large number of hours later, dey actually makes it to da musbile & never has a cold-wet-balled & lobster-red-armed & tired man been as happy to see his musmobile

evening

what little remained of the evening was spent sharing memories of lives flashing by, continuously

sum-up