We anchored off Stykkisholmur, unable to dock at the pier as another cruise ship was already there. This meant putting on our life jackets and getting in to one of the little tender boats. I sat on the edge of this rubber dinghy and clung on to the rope which encircled the boat as we bounced on the water. It was only a five minute trip to the pier where we bagged our life jackets and climbed into a bus for our tour of the Snæfellsnes peninsular. Our tour guide was a local farmer who told us most Icelanders have 2, 3, or even 4 jobs. "Iceland is a very expensive country to live in", she told us. During summer time she teaches at the local school and year round she is a story teller, tour guide and farmer. We headed west which meant we had a wonderful view of the Snæfellsjökull glacier for much of the way. It took nearly an hour to drive to our first stop - Djúpalónssandur or the Black Lava Pearl beach. I can't pronounce most of the place names in Iceland and I most certainly can't remember how to spell them!! The road out took us past several small fishing villages and towards the Snæfellsjökull glacier. Once we arrived at Djúpalónssandur, we followed a path to the beach. This took us through a lava field with huge lava formations. One of the rocks has a hole right through the middle. The beach itself is covered with small round black pebbles. These pebbles are called the pearls of Djúpalón. On the beach is the wreck of the Epine GY7, a British trawler which came to grief on the coast here in 1948. Five men were saved by Icelanders but fourteen died. The remains of the vessel have been left in memory of these men. There are four different sized rocks on the beach, 23kg 54kg, 100kg and 154kg. A fisherman had to be able to lift the 54kg rock to be allowed to fish on a fishing boat. A couple of kilometres south we spot the the basalt rock pillars at Lóndrangar and stop to take some photos. Our next stop is Hellnar, once a huge port but now a tiny fishing village. There is a coastal path from here to Arnarstapi village which takes about half an hour along the clifftop. Our last stop before heading back to Stykkishólmur is the little church at Bú?ir.