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Driving eastwards from Kirkjubæjarklaustur. |
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Vatnajökull is the largest glacier in Europe. |
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(for Art) the car |
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Seamus enjoys the scenery |
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Seamus, Gowolla and Mickey |
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Cloud covered glacier and Einbreið Brú (single width bridge) |
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Glacial river, the water is clear and more greeny blue than normal |
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You can see the glacial tongue coming down from the glacier |
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Seamus considers the glacier |
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Ganesh and the mountains |
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Ganesh and the glacier |
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Layers of rock |
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The Skfatafellsjökull glacier tongue of Vatnajökull glacier (the largest glacier in Europe) in Skaftafell National Park. |
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Can you see Elves in the rocks? |
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The Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon, created by run off from the glaciar - some of it solid. |
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Apartment blocks for Elves. |
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There are a lot of farms and settlements. |
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In Höfn (the furthest East we get) we spot a street called Svalbarð (ref Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Books). |
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It's possible that this dish in Höfn is pointing to the geostationary satellites over the equator. |
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Leaving Höfn and driving Westwards. |
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