The Myrdalsjokull Glacier is an ice cap that is 30 miles long and 20 miles wide covering an area of 270 square miles. The southern part of this glacier covers the Katla Volcano. We walked from the last photo of the prior post to here.

The ash/lava ground area led right up to the deep glacier. As we walked across this area, we smelled sulfur. We asked our guide about it and he said that he smelled it too - and that was a bad sign. Remember, this volcano is about fifty years overdue for an eruption. But we forged ahead. Within about 30 hours of us leaving here, this area had two earthquakes that were each about 4.4 to 4.6 on the Richter scale.

As we got closer to the glacier, we encountered quite a few small creeks that we had to find our way across. We usually found some rocks to hop across or a narrow place to cross. It started raining rather hard, so that added to our excitement.

This is not a black and white photo. That's why I came well prepared with my tie-dye shirt in place. It's very easy to understand that Iceland has plenty of water.

Our local guide is putting his ice pick and crampons to work. You can see him in the center of the photo about two-thirds of the way up. He was getting us some 700 year old ice to add to our cocktails.

When the going got tough, we drank cocktails.