Iceland 2014
Photos of my 6 day drive around Iceland, July 9 to July 14, 2014.
I put 1126 miles on the rental car I picked up and dropped off at the Keflavik airport. Circled couner clockwise.
The trip was preceeded by a 22 day tour of Norway. See the Norway slide show for those pictures.
All pictures were taken with a pocket camera: Olympus HS-50, 16.8 MP, 24x, equiv 25-600mm, full HD, great little camera.
Don't forget to use the scroll bar to pan through the wide panoramic photos
1 - Eastern fjords as the plane gets to Iceland from Norway; we land in a rain storm on the west of Iceland
2 - After 97 miles of driving, the rain quits as I arrive in Geysir; that's my tent next to the steam vents
3 - And Strokker is 200 yards away; goes off every 6-8 min, up to 30 meters high
4 - There are several other geothermal features, like Yellowstone
5 - Including this steam vent
6 - And near by is Gullfoss, Icelands most famous waterfall
7 - Now on to the south coast
8 - Gluggafoss
9 - An unpaved shortcut to the loop road
10 - Falls
11 - Farms meet vocanos
12 - The big one that shutdown transatlantic flights in 2010, was just over these hills
13 - Skogafoss
14 - South coast, Atlantic Ocean
15 - Puffin, should have brought my 50x zoom camera
16 - A collage of puffins
17 - And digital zoomed, (sorry, that's the best I could do: handheld, poor light, 24x zoom)
18 - More south coast
19 - With interesting formations
20 - Glaciers coming
21 - But first we have to cross miles of lava sand
22 - Almost there
23 - Waterfall
24 - How tall is it?
25 - A pair of glaciers, Vatnajokull National Park
26 - #1
27 - #2, both are connected to the largest glacier in Europe
28 - And this one too
29 - Glacier Lagoon
30 - Icebergs eveywhere
31 - Day 3, rain and fog moves in, east coast
32 - Surfs up
33 - More east coast
34 - Falls
35 - Falls
36 - Big falls
37 - View from the the window of my Fellabaer cabin
38 - Headed back west near the north coast, desolate
39 - Did I say desolate
40 - Dettifoss, most volume in Europe
41 - With a big canyon
42 - Getting close and personal
43 - And wet!
44 - You definately felt the power, almost 200 cubic meters per second
45 - Above the falls
46 - A little over a kilometer up stream, Selfoss
47 - Terrain along the walk to/from the falls
48 - Kaboom
49 - Actually it's a flat top, Heroubreio, the national mountain of Iceland
50 - North side geothermal features
51 - Ditto
52 - And a geothermal powerplant
53 - Buckling
54 - Gooafoss
55 - Akureyri
56 - Akureyri is the second largest city in Iceland
57 - Arctic Ocean
58 - Arctic Ocean
59 - This valley is between two multi kilometer tunnels, on my way to Siglujordur
60 - Camping in Siglujordur town park
61 - Great little town, though the residents were a little stiff
62 - Popular eateries
63 - Protected fishing harbor
64 - Beach vollyball
65 - Access to the Arctic Ocean
66 - Typical houses
67 - The lamb was the tenderest I have ever eaten, slow cooked for 24 hours
68 - Museum, the town was the herring capital of Iceland
69 - This bird made some pretty strange mating calls
70 - Quite a few horses country wide, sheep to, don't remember seeing any cows
71 - Excuse me, do you know where my feed bucket is?
72 - I never made to downtown Reykjavik, too much traffic
73 - Norway and Iceland Trip Log
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