The last stop on this very full day of canyon and ice lagoon was Stokkesness to photograph Mt. Vestrahorn. The land is privately owned so you have to pay an entrance fee - one of the few places we paid for anything other than parking.
I wanted to get a good photo of the mountain with a reflection from the water but the tide was out so that wasn't meant to be. The wind here was super strong! We had to lean into it to walk and the sand from the beach was hitting our faces and stinging like little needles. I realized when we were about a hundred yards from the car that I should have changed to my wide angle lens. A really rookie mistake and you can't change a lens in all that sand and wind so I just did the best I could. We all stumbled our way back to the car after a few photos and it was such a relief to be out of that wind! We drove to the Viking village which was built as a movie set and you can walk around and look at the buildings. The crazy thing is, there was no wind here. We could literally see where we had parked in all that wind earlier but the mountains must have blocked it because it was quite calm at the village.
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