Iceland's South Coast waterfalls

Again these are a fraction of the waterfalls along the south coast. It would take many days to see them all so we focused on the most popular ones. 

Seljalandsfoss is a waterfall with a large opening behind it so you can walk behind the water (with a hundred or so companions lol, I edited them out of one of the photos). I recommend getting there very early in the morning to avoid the tour bus crowds or go later in the evening for the same reason. They say the best photos can be taken in the late afternoon but that depends on the weather of course. We were there about 10am. It was very wet behind the waterfall, so much so that I didn't use my camera at all - I just used my phone. It was very fun tho and the flow of water was quite good so we enjoyed it. 

Just to the left of Seljalandsfoss is a waterfall called Gljufrabui. You have to wade through the water and rock-hop though a narrow cleft in the rock to enter a small open area where the water falls. It was quite crowded when we were there and the opening is really only wide enough for one person at a time so the people waiting to go in had to wait for the people coming out and vice versa. Inside the open area is a big boulder that makes for an awesome photo if you can make it up on top. I was surprised I made it about halfway up (with a running start) and Mike helped pull me up the rest of the way. These things aren't easy when you're short!

Skogafoss is a 200 foot tall, 80 foot wide waterfall. You can't get very close to the base of the falls because it flows into a river, but the spray and wind coming off were really strong even when you're not super close.  We tried to wade a little bit into the river to get a better photo, but our boots were only ankle high. There were some people on a rocky area to the right of the falls that were closer than we were and they were absolutely drenched! And it was loud! 

There is a series of 500 steps to the right of the waterfall and you can climb those to hike beyond the top of the waterfall. There are multiple waterfalls on that trail and I think you can even connect to another long hiking trail from there. At this point it was raining and we had another stop to make and I was pooped from all climbing all those steps, so we just hiked to the closest waterfall and then turned around.

We also needed to get to Vik as we had tickets for the Lava Show that evening. We were wondering if the show would be kind of hokey but it was actually quite good.