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How did it go? You’re simply going to have to look at the video to seek out out
Some wonderful footage from our date to Iceland
Just like the video stated, we made our manner as far east as jet lag would permit and ended up on the well-known Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon (on a Saturday at midday there have been solely three different automobiles there, by the way in which). I’ve been there many occasions however it was actually cool seeing another person’s response to seeing it for the primary time! The translucent teal blue colours coming from icebergs that have been 1000’s of years outdated have been simply lovely.
I shifted round to get some footage of the icebergs in entrance of the Vatnajokull glacier, the supply of the icebergs within the lagoon.
From Jokulsarlon we went to the Diamond Seaside. The icebergs within the lagoon make their manner out to the ocean the place a lot of them are smashed towards the shore and break into small fragments (i.e. why they name it Diamond Seaside). The ice fragments weren’t as massive as that they had been the opposite occasions I had been out right here however they have been nonetheless lots good for footage!
As we began again west we stopped briefly for one more view of the large Vatnajokull glacier, the most important glacier in Europe.
The subsequent day we started with some views from an infinite cliff referred to as Dyrholaey (which you’ll need to see within the video) after which made our approach to one in every of my favourite waterfalls: Svartifoss. It’s a fast hike up an affordable hill in Skaftafell Nationwide Park and the basalt columns that body it on both aspect are completely wonderful.
From there we drove west a bit extra and parked in a parking zone seemingly in the course of nowhere. After which, we walked in the direction of the coast…for 2 miles. Ultimately we noticed it: the crashed DC-3.
This DC-3 was flying over the south coast of Iceland in 1972 for the US Navy when it skilled a gas downside. They needed to ditch it alongside the shores and, fortunately, everybody aboard survived. They didn’t know what to do with the airplane…so they only left it there. At the moment you’ll be able to stroll out to it, climb by means of it, and a few individuals have been impolite and spray-painted on it.
Some fool even put his head by means of the home windows and smiled just like the goofy vacationer he was…
We stayed in Vik for a lot of the journey for 2 causes: 1) it was centrally situated for a lot of the issues we needed to see and a couple of) PUFFINS
We have been killing time till sundown and I noticed some nice night gentle shining on the Reyniskirkja church upon the hills, needed to seize an image.
I’ve to admit to you…I bought an image of a puffin however it’s not ok to share with you but. I’ll possible be returning to Iceland quickly particularly to go see the puffins and meet their king. I’ll share the entire puffin footage at the moment don’t fear.
The ultimate day of our journey started tremendous early (which was okay as a result of the solar rose at 4:30am). We have been heading again to Reykjavik for our COVID exams to re-enter the USA, however we left early so we might see some extra sights on the way in which.
Our first cease was Skogafoss, as a result of clearly it was Skogafoss.
Not a nasty lengthy publicity, proper? What if I instructed you it was handheld with an iPhone 12 Professional? Loopy how good these cellphone cameras are getting.
Across the nook from Skogafoss is one in every of my favourite waterfalls in Iceland, the fantastic Kvernufoss. It’s by no means actually that crowded, and we had all of it to ourselves this time.
Seljalandsfoss was the plain subsequent cease, however truthfully I like Kvernufoss higher so we didn’t spend a lot time at Seljalandsfoss and went to the waterfall across the nook referred to as Gljufrabui, hidden by an enormous crack within the mountainside.
We bought our COVID take a look at in Reykjavik and had a while to kill earlier than we revisited the volcano, so I, being fairly aggressive on the subject of seeing sights, thought we’d as properly head out to the Snaefellsness Peninsula to see Iceland’s iconic Kirkjufell once more.
It appeared fairly completely different from after I had visited it only a month and a half earlier than!
Okay sufficient with the photographs, how did the date go?
You’re going to have to look at the video to seek out out, hope you get pleasure from it!
