This is an Icelandic horse on a black beach. Photo taken by Ragnar Th.
If the picture I recently posted was the album cover of an all horse rock band, then what kind of music would this stallion represent?
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Black wasteland?
It’s amazing what you find if you kneel down and take a good look at an Icelandic black desert sand. I took this photo on the sands in front of Sólheimajökull glacier a couple of years ago. This plant is less than a centimeter high. You would today have a harder time finding such plants since they’ve had a hard time poking through the ash in that area after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption just a few kilometers away. A few more macro’s here.
Took me a while to figure out what this is. But I reckon this is an aerial photo of beaches splashing against the black sand beach by Vík. By Kapro on Flickr.
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Iceland is windy. Hanging out at the Skógasandur beach in winds around 30-40 m/s (110-140 km/h or 70-90 m/h). My own video.
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Here’s one of my own pictures. As you can see it can get very windy in Iceland, so prepare for that. This picture is taken down on the dunes of the Skógarsandur beach. We were guiding on the Sólheimajökull Glacier but it was much too windy to do glacier tours so we went out for a little play.
I remember once the weatherman was speaking of a hurricane in the USA that had destroyed thousands of homes. He then said: “But to put this in comparison with Icelandic weather, we have had 52 days of more wind than that this year in the town of Kjalarnes.”
