Surfing in between icebergs
There may not be any waves, but it is still quite cool to paddle your surfboard in between the icebergs on the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. Who knows, maybe an iceberg will roll. That can cause some nice waves.
A couple of fixie riding, sneaker wearing hipsters visited Iceland and made this cool video.
Waterfalls: Gullfoss, Skógafoss, Seljalandsfoss, Goðafoss, Dettifoss, waterfalls Lakahraun lava field, Mývatn lake, Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon, Snæfellsnes peninsula, Geysir geothermal area, Krafla geothermal area, Blue Lagoon, Kjós farm area and Skaftafellsjökull glacier.
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Jökulsárlón, Iceland. The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I think now i’ll post all the others :D
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BON IVER “Holocene”
Beautiful shortfilm by Nabil Elderkin. All of the scenes are filmed in Iceland. I’ll help you figure out where the locations are if you are interested. Young Hilke wakes up in a traditional Icelandic turfhouse. Notice how short the beds are. That’s because we were smaller a century ago. He puts on classic rubber shoes and an Icelandic wool sweater. He then walks out on the Skeiðarársandur sand and towards the Skeiðarárjökull glacier close to Skaftafell. The lava field is probably Lakahraun close to the town of Kirkjubæjarklaustur as well as the grassy shot. He then walks through a mountain valley, probably the Dómadalur valley between the Hekla mountain and Landmannalaugar hot springs. The rocky moss slope could be just about anywhere. The hilly landscape in which he can “see for miles” is tough, but probably somewhere in the Fjallabak area. He then skips stones in between ice bergs on the famous Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon in front of the expansive Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, part of the Vatnajökull glacier. He then admires the Svartifoss waterfall which falls off of the basalt columns up on the Skaftafellsheiði plateau in the Skaftafell National Park. He then plays around a lake which I’m pretty sure is the lake you see just before arriving in Landmannalaugar. He then hikes along a moraine at the edge of the Svínafellsjökull glacier (my glacier) in Skaftafell. He stays in Skaftafell a little longer and admires the views over Skeiðarársandur from a spot in between the trees by the Bölti guesthouse. He then walks around the Sólheimasandur sand just south of the Sólheimajökull glacier (my other glacier) and plays with the Skúmur (Arctic Skua). The beautiful basalt columns that he climbs on are at the beach on the western side of the Reynisfjall mountain in Reynishverfi, close to the town of Vík. That beach also gives him a sunset view of Dyrhólaey, the mountain/island with the big hole through it. Finally he falls asleep, the end.
“Ash covered icebergs from the Grímsvötn volcano eruption” may not be totally accurate. True these icebergs are full of ash, and true much if it probably comes from Grímsvötn. However, none if any, comes from the recent 2011 eruption in Grímsvötn. This ice which breaks into the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon is packed with history. This ice originally came down as snow far up on the glacier, decades or centuries ago. There it would snow for many years, until an eruption occurred. At that point a layer of ash, just as in the recent eruption, would cover the entire glacier. The next year it begins snowing again and that layer of ash gets covered in ash. The Vatnajökull glacier gets covered by ash in layers of variable thicknesses many times over a century. When the ice finally breaks into the lagoon, these lines become visible. (If you want to be picky, some of these lines are not ash, but most are, so lets keep it simple in this post.)
So MSNBC has got it wrong this time. The really nice pictures it has of the paddle boarders on Jökulsárlón, have nothing to do with the recent Grímsvötn eruption.
However there was plenty of new ash on these ice bergs which can be seen in other places.
Ash covered icebergs from the Grimsvotn volcano eruption, in the glacier lagoon at the base of Vatnajokull, Iceland.
Ingolfur Juliusson / Reuters
This reminds me of something. A friend of mine, Leifur Örn, did a stunt in a Coca Cola commercial in this lagoon (Jökulsárlón) in the 80’s or 90’s. He was hired to climb an ice berg that had been carved into a giant Coca Cola bottle. He told me that the ice sculptor who carved out the bottle also carved out several other forms, including a giant swan ice berg.
I wish I could find the video. If anybody knows this ad, please let me know.
Small bird - big bird (by ystenes)
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Northern lights over the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. This is an animation cut from this awesome video.
Most awesome northern lights video I’ve seen. This timelapse is taken at Jökulsárlón in Iceland.
Skipping ice on Jökulsárlón.
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Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon like you’ve never seen it before
This car is only a meter away from being swept away by the powerful Jökulsá glacier river and being swept out into the Atlantic. Be careful when driving in Iceland, we have some of the best nature in the world, but our roads are no autobahns. Check out the Icelandic Search and Rescue’s tips on safe travel in Iceland.
Photo by Gummi Stóri.
The Tom Cat is a Land Rover based rally car produced in Iceland. Check out this video of British Top Gear racing a Tom Cat along the Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon against a jet powered kayak.
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Look at all those layers of ash and grit in these icebergs out on the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. If you look closely you see a little dingy sailing at the base to give you scale to these giants.
Photo by Runólfur Hauksson
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