I could tell you about it, but that would require far too many words. So have some pictures, instead. Click to enlarge.
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- I couldn’t figure out what this was, and we didn’t have time to explore it. Some kind of monument!
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- This is a Northern Gannett, much bigger and more colorful than our Gannetts.
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- And this is a Puffin! The first one I ever saw in the wild!
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- And some more Puffins, all around Puffin Island.
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- Yet more Puffins…tired yet?
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- Hope not, because here’s one last Puffin.
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- It’s not all sunshine, you know. Sometimes there are rainbows, too.
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- The sheep were just amazing. So sweet!
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- We noticed that they often traveled in threes.
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- They were very unimpressed by passers by.
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- The odd landscape seemed to provoke people to do strange things, like pile up rocks.
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- There were waterfalls everywhere.
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- And giant cliffs
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- And places where the earth simply splits apart to reveal streams
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- It’s amazing to see
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- Icelandic ponies are stocky and friendly.
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- Giant waterfalls gush over the craggy earth.
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- The scale is shocking.
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- In other places, steam simply rises from pools of water in the earth
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- Tiny geysers bubble up
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- And giant ones explode
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- The landscape looks as if it were part of a SFF flick.
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- And you can see the effect of plate movements on on the surface of the earth.
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- There are gorgeous valleys
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- And lakes appear out of nowhere.
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- Beauty everywhere.
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- Eider ducks swim happily, whence all the lovely eiderdown pillows and duvets.
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- Rocky islands spring up.
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- I had phallic-themed fun at the Icelandic Phallological Museum.
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- I am dying to know if the joke of this being a “handball” team works in Icelandic as well as English.
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- But of course there were actual specimens as well. (This is sperm whale)
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- They have beautiful churches, as well. That right there is an organ…of a different kind than the previous ones.
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- And when you’re done with the museums and churches, nature has her own own surprises around every corner.