Unexpected Beach Day

Last night shortly after I posted my daily update about how calm and quiet the place we were camping was…suddenly there was CRAZY wind! Like wind I expected in Iceland but never had. Gusts that would be dangerous for us to drive in as they could literally blow us over if we were moving! Crazy strong winds! And the super strong gusts were so so loud!! Luckily our car was almost facing the direction of wind so it didn’t rock us around that much, only the strongest gusts, but it was crazy how loud it was. Our calm night was loud wind waking me up which was kind of scary at first as I was asleep and like what is that noise?!?! Then realized it was the wind. We have never had wind like that in a camper before!!

So this morning we got up and it was raining pretty hard and still super super windy so we thought okay…not going to do our hike today as it was miserable weather. I had to go out in it for two seconds and was just like nope! Don’t want to do that! I don’t like to be uncomfortable and freezing cold wind blowing rain in my face so I can’t see and such is miserable! Plus you couldn’t see the mountains so there is no point in hiking up high to see nothing!

We hung out reading and relaxing until about 11:30 when I was getting a bit stir crazy and the rain and wind seemed to let up a bit…so I was like let’s go for a short walk! So we hiked up to the ridge closest to us…much of the pathway through the farm was wooden planks as it was just giant water puddles. On the narrow, windy roads here there are always places for cars to pass - they are marked with an „M“ sign, and I love that the wooden trail had them! It made me laugh, but was a good idea as we did need to use them to pass people going the other way. At the top was a little lake and you couldn’t really see anything…and we were just slightly wet! We headed back down and had lunch and then suddenly the crazy wind was back! We waited for it to die down a bit before heading off to do chores and on to camp.

Along the way we stopped at Ramberg Beach because it was so pretty! The water was gorgeous!! Those are the first two beach photos. Then we headed on to camp, which was also at a beach and gorgeous! The rest of the photos are from there. It was pretty windy when we got here, but that let up so we wandered the beach a few times. It was super fun and the waves were pretty big this afternoon. I could sit in the car and watch people surfing, or jumping in before going to sit in the sauna.

We had decided to camp at a campground tonight so we had electricity as we haven’t been driving much to recharge the living quarters battery (even though it said it was charged enough after a short drive…we also wanted to be able to blast the heat and dry things out and stay warm if it was cold and rainy all day and we were just inside) as this morning all of a sudden the lights didn’t work. We figured it was the battery so we need to plug in to the electricity to charge it up. Well…we got to camp and plugged in and the lights still weren’t working! The fridge was still on which was good, but no lights! We were trying to figure out why and find the fuse box to see if it was a fuse (which was like where is this thing?? The instruction manual for the car is awful and didn’t tell you where things are, just about the things so we were moving everything around looking everywhere). There was this weird freezing thing that I didn’t really understand what it was so I thought maybe that had gotten triggered and that made things go off or something so we tried turning that and nothing…and then everything suddenly just reset and we realized the power button hadn’t been on this morning so maybe we shut it off accidentally? No clue, but it is working now so yey!

Well then we were trying to use the water and it wasn’t working…so we looked and we were almost out of water which made no sense as we just refilled yesterday! And that was the second time we have on this trip so we definitely didn’t use it in a day…so we went to fill up again and noticed it was leaking out…luckily I had found a thing from the place we rented about our camper and what to do if x happens and the first thing for leaking water is make sure the button is pushed on the freezing thing we messed with earlier so we pushed the button and hooray! No more leaking water! It was kind of an adventure, but we did end up cleaning as we had to move everything everywhere to get at things so why not clean when we put things back?

This evening we made s’mores! I had brought Graham crackers back from the states and there is a store in Berlin that has really good vegan marshmallows so I brought them and some good dark chocolate and roasted them over our camp stove! Delicious!

All in all it was not a bad day! We love exploring the beach!Læs mere