I left Asbyrgi in rain and drove along the coast to Husavik. I've had a whale watching trip there couple of times. Now I just filled up the fridge. The mobicool has not been running much since the temperature has been under 10 degrees, in highlands it is close to 0 degrees Celsius.
From Husavik I drove to Godafoss, where I filled the tank and portal hubs. Two of them were almost dry. The one that has been leaking was ok and rear left hub was ok. So front left and rear right were running a very little oil. In Godafoss I had a meat pot for lunch for reasonable price after couple of 20€ hamburgers. The Mog draw some wannabe Mog vehicles around.
And the Godafoss of course
Then I took of for Sprengisandur road F26. It goes through Iceland in the middle from North to South(or Vice Verse)
First there is Aldeyarsfoss, where I flew the drone a little. I was forced to update DJI4 app and luckily there was data available for update. I could not avoid updating. Bad stuff from DJI.
Then there is another foss, don't remember the name. There was a bunch of photgraphers playing with their ND-filters and drones.
And then the desert...
Late in the evening I arrived at Nyidalur, where I spent the night. There waas a nice sunset so I flew the drone and grabbed some photos.
This is pretty much in the center of Iceland.
In the morning some more desert, until in the next evening I arrived Veidivatn. The road goes between couple of glaciers and is at about 800 meters so it can be very cold, especially with the wind.
No photos from the Veidivatn yet, but maybe soon....
One day spent here in Asbyrgi. I already packed up because it was raining during the night and it seemed to continue in the morning. Then it cleared up a bit and I grabbed the drone and walked the center cliff. There you could see a bit further and the weather was clearing up a bit so I walked also the outer cliff to the end of gorge. Two batteries from the drone were spent, though the weather was gray so there is nothing spectacular.
I edited rapidly a video of the highland drive, just picked up a short clip from each take from the dashcam. At the end there is couple of clips from the drone, in HD however.
And some photos from the Asbyrgi.
The trail from the camping to the outer cliff has a bit steep start.
In the Dettifoss drones are forbidden. I think the water sprays might drop quite a few drones if tourists would fly them there.
Ok, here I am, in Iceland I mean. First highland corner is done. Dust gets under the tarpaulin and I have do cleaning after every day in dusty tracks.
Some photos of the vehicles waiting Norröna. The first photo was a CZ nationality and the cabin was self made. They had traveled through Asia and another trip through south America. They had shipped the car with Grimaldi. The lady was interested if there is room for another person, so I had to show her that the place is reserved for the bike ;)
And during the sail some moments.
sailboat close to Shetland Islands
Torshavn in Faroes
Poor guys sailbot parked there
Exiting Faroes
Entering Iceland
Seydisfjördur
In customs they took Moggi in for inspections. Couple of tight questions if I have something to toll and then we were talking about highland attractions :). I got some tips of the film Oblivion(Tom Cruise, SciFi) filming location in Veidivatn(the lake area ). I guess I have to check it out, if I'll find it.
Here is some photos from the highlands
Hengisfoss , lower
gorge under the big dam
snäfjell
Some drone footage from Herdubreid camping, but it has to wait till I'll be back home. 4k footage is impossible to upload.
herdubreid
Moggi and Herdubreid
Dettifoss
Dettifoss
Dettifoss
Dettifoss
I planned to hike the Herdubreid top, but it was covered snow and ice, so I decided to continue. Askja range was also convered with snow, so hiking the crater edges might b tricky. Now I'm in Asbyrgi and planned to fly drone here, but now there is showers of water every now and then so I'll check again in the morning.
Phones internet is not working, but mobile internet device got the net running. It should be free now up to the similar data amount as in home, but well see about that..
First day was about all driving, only two short stops and a lunch stop. I was at Vuosaari port at about 13:30, so it took about 9 hours since I started already at 04:30. When I was checking portals and diffs, I noticed that front right portal is leaking oil. I remembered that I had a bit over filled it, so it had pushed the extra oil out. I guess seals are not ok anymore, so I have check it frequently.
waiting at Vuosaari Port
Vuosaari from Finnlines
A bit mixed thoughts onboard the ship, I was thinking about the oil leak. I decided to park in Travemunde port and overnight there and check oil level in the morning.
Truck drivers have all meals included in the ticket so I spent some time eating. There was also the Baku F1 GP on TV, and it was a bit different kind of F1 race. Valtteri Bottas had crash after start and had to visit pit. He was left one lap behind others after the pit stop. After many other crashes and debree cleaning on the track Bottas got the lap back begind the security car. After many other incidents Ricciardo won and Bottas was second.
In MotoGP Rossi got first victory after a long brake. It was his Assen win number 10, a 115th victory in total. Also his MotoGP wins span now over 20 years.
The boat was in Travemunde at 21:30 local time and I guess we got out at about 22:00. I tried to find a place to spend night at port parkings, but they are not free of charge and there is not too much room.
So I set Flensburg as a target in the GPS and started driving. It was getting dark and the original lights of the Mog are not very good. I decided to go into some service station parking along some Highway. GPS guided me through smaller roads to A7 and there I finally got myself in a service station, which had room in the parking lot.
first camp
In the morning I checked the oile level of the leaking portal hub and it was at top level. I tried to add oil, but is was draining out from the filling hole. So I guess I just continue the trip and check the hub every now and then. Before start I had a breakfast in the restaureng of the service station, just a big coffee and a small hambourger worth of 4€.
Then I drove to highway and continued non stop into Hirsthals. There I checked portals again and I guess it hak leaked a bit more, but there was so windy weather that I did not fill up, because there might get sand and dust into the oil.
I tried to go to the camping close to Smyril Line boarding peer, but I guess it was closed. Then I set Hirsthals camping to the GPS and drove there. The camping is at seaside and it was pretty windy. I took some photos from the shore, but photos don't show the size of the waves.
Here is a video from the dashcam, nothing special there. Some clipses from the route home-dk. Some clips from the Finnmaid cargo corner :)
