Drífandi

Drífandi waterfall is on the western part of Eyjafjöll mountains. Sometimes the waterfall is hard to spot, and it is best known for the water in it not being able to reach the bottom of the rock face due to wind.

It is often quite windy in that area and then the wind blows away all the water before it reaches the ground. In winter, a large layer of ice often forms at the waterfall and it is no less beautiful that way.

The stratigraphic structure of Vestur-Eyjafjöll is displayed nicely around the waterfall, but there you can see beautiful lava layers and palagonite tuff. The rock face is an old coastal cliff, but the sea level in the area was much higher at the end of the last glaciation in Iceland and the sea then eroded the mountain, forming the cliff face.

There is a small parking lot on the south side of highway one, in front of the weather signs, shortly after the turn to Seljalandsfoss waterfall. There is the best spot to have a look at the waterfall.