Rain in the desert

How to ship two tons of equipment into a desert? There are some great guys doing that, and we are quite happy that our boxes made it safely to Dreki today. Many thanks to Villi and his team! We now feel ready for having the campaign starting soon – “just” need to decide on the final ground zero …. but that’s what we will sort out during the next days.

Equipment arriving in the desert. It has travelled through 2 rivers to serve us during the next 6 weeks.

Just the moment when Carlos, Konrad and Kerstin have unloaded the trailers, rain starts pouring down – enough to be soaking wet (persons and cardboard box) in a minute. Welcome to the desert!

After finishing playing Tetris with the boxes in the container, and having a brief lunch break, the crowd arrived from Akureyri. The most pressing question now is: setting up the tents before, during, or after the rain? In the end, after the rain is before the rain … But in the end, everything worked out … except … well, sleeping bag apparently didn’t made it to Dreki! What next? Carlos and Konrad decided on very short notice to go back towards Möðrudalur with Villi meeting half way. Thanks again! Rice and camping-ratatouille finishes the day.

Camping in the desert. Eventually missing sleeping bags have arrived.