Entire Blue Lagoon car park now covered in lava
A few street lamps at the end of the parking lot are still standing, but otherwise, all of the parking lot is under lava. mbl.is/Eggert Jóhannesson
The entire parking lot of the Blue Lagoon is now under lava, except for a few street lamps that stand at the end of what used to be a parking lot.
Then the lava seems to have spread a little and, among other things, just now passed over a sign directing visitors to the car park.
The lava continues to flow along the defense wall west of the Blue Lagoon.
This is the main parking lot of the Blue Lagoon and there are parking spaces for around 350 cars as well as bus parking.
Helga Árnadóttir, manager of sales, operations and services at the Blue Lagoon, told mbl.is earlier today that access to the Blue Lagoon needs to be assessed when the time comes to see whether there are possibilities to use other access routes for vehicles.
"It is impossible to tell the damage at this point, but we will see this better as time goes on and how we can respond." There are some parking options at the reservoir, but we need to take a closer look at it in the future," Árnadóttir said.
You can follow the progress of the lava on a webcam from Mt Þorbjörn below.
