Skógafoss

Twenty-five metres wide and dropping sixty, over a cliff that used to be the coastline. The sea has since pulled back about five kilometres, leaving these old sea cliffs running parallel to the shore for hundreds of kilometres as the border between the coastal lowlands and the Highlands. The spray is heavy enough that a single or double rainbow stands in it on any sunny day, and heavy enough to soak anyone who walks close. Legend says the settler Þrasi Þórólfsson buried treasure in a cave behind it; the chest’s ring ended up on a church door and is now in the Skógar museum.