Brad and Giant friend
Brad and the biggest puffin the the world
Brad and old “viking,” Erik the red nose
Sue and troll viking
Reykjavik town lake, great for ice skating, one corner heated for the b irds in winter
Reykjavik restaurant
“Peace House” in Reykjavik, meeting place of Reagan and Gorbachov
Araer Open Air Museum - in Reykjavik, scupture garden
Same scultpture as the last one
Reykjavik and mountains
Leif Eriksson looking East (and Brad looking at me), statue sent by US
Reykjavik - sculpture at the Pearl, a energy plant and garden, restaurant and museum
Leif the Lucky (Eriksson)
Brad the viking warrior
Sue and Karen at the Moss Garden, Reykjavik Botanical Garden
View from The Pearl toward downtown Reykjavik
Reykjavik Lutheran Cathedral
Our tour guide, Arni Magnusson, describing our route on a large 3D model of Iceland in Reykjavik
Moutain slide, after it cracked open, lots of scree
Hraunfossar -- water flows down from the glacier under the lava field and flows out into the river.
Hraunfossar rushing down
Deildartunguhver - powerful hot springs
Open country going to the Snaefellsnes Penninsula
Birds are back, nesting in the cliffs
Borgarfjordur region (Boot fjiord) boat trip - scallops, sea urchins
Borgarfjordur region (Boot fjord) boat trip - scallops, sea urchins, eat raw, umm good!
Norwegian house - 19th century upper class home
Stykkisholme
Sue and Dave, boat cruise to islands near Stykkisholmur
Sue with Stykkisholmur harbor and town in background
Stykkisholmur Harbor and tour boat
Glacial Water Museum in Stykkisholmur
Stykkisholme - modern church in an old town
Sheep shed, lambing season
Shark in a bin, to be “cured”, sits out for 8 weeks!
Shark hanging to “ripen” into a cheesey, smelly food, ooof
Arni picking up some shark
Drying cod heads to be sold to african countries very cheap
Reykholt - home of Snorri Sturlason back about 1150 AD - he'd emerge from the sod house and use his natural “hot tub”
Bjarnarhofn
Bjarnarhofn, where we had putrid shark meat (an Icelandic delicacy) and "black death," an Icelandic alcoholic drink.
Lifesize Puffin
Skagafjordur Eriksstadir, home of Eric the Red and birthplace of son Leif (the Lucky) Eriksson about 970 AD.
Skagafjordur. Notice -- trees. Only 1% of Iceland is covered by trees.
Church - all Lutheran, naturally, complete with sod roof
“Black Valley area (no sunlight in the winter)
Black Valley. This is May. It gets cold in the winter.
Brad in the Black Valley (green from LOTS of manure). House in background was home of one of Iceland's leading poets.
Akureyri - area, view from country hotel (renovated sheep shed)
Brad and Pren, Dartmouth classmates, Akureyri. There were two days when it was warm enough for Brad to take off his wool cap. This was one of them.
Sue and Brad on porch of farm at Akureyri
Dartmouth '56 at Akureyri. Our Icelandic classmate, silver medalist in the 1956 Olympic triple jump, is the tall one in the middle.
Brad in the wind, near where Gunnar the outlaw swam to shore from an island to rekindle his fire
Lake Myvatn area rift between Eurasian and North American plate right under the lake
Lake Myvatn area
Our hotel sign in Akureyri, cold and windy day
School bus came to pick up the kids -- near Akureyri
Gulfoss waterfall - great waterfall
Gulfoss waterfall and a cold Brad. It's late May and Spring will come soon.
Lake Myvatn, with steam pot hills from volcano/magma. Only 1% of Iceland is covered by trees -- and many of those are less than 15 feet high.
lava sculptures of Dimmuborgir (dark citadels)
Troll houses - who let the trolls out!
More of the rift between the continental tectonic plates
Namaskard - steam jets, mud pots, boiling sulphur pits
Namaskard - steam jets, boiling sulphur pits
Spa/lagoon at a steam power plant
Akureyri
Akureyri. Iceland's largest ski area is in the mountains above town.
Icelandic outlaw hiding from the Danes returning his dead wife to town for burial
Akureyri and cheap hotdogs (good too)
Snow in the mtns from plane back to Reykjavik
Hotel in Selfoss (tree by Brad is fake)
Tundra between Selfoss to Thingvellir
Thingvellir National Park - ancient site of parliament. Rift between North American tectonic plate (on left) and Eurasian tectonic plate (across valley on right) moving away from each other.
Thingvellir National Park - ancient site of parliament and battles between pagans and christians before 1000
Brad trying to close the continental rift and stop the drift of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates
Icelandic horses
Horses, short sweet, cold tolerant, stay out all winter
Gulfoss waterfall
Gulfoss waterfall -windy and cold!
Sue and waterfall
Volcanic pit, Arni retrieving earmuffs
Small waterfall, clear water
Big waterfall--Skogarfoss
Skogarfoss
Julie at Skogarfoss - very wet!
Skogarfoss - power
Julie -- Skogarfoss
Ice skates - early ones of bones
bone ice skates
Kitchen goods
Weather barometer - animal bladder
Viking house
Inside country Lutheran Church
Folk museum
Solheimajokull glacier
Solheimajokull glacier-under/inside
Solheimajokull glacier under inside, dripping
Vik
Vik beach - 3 ship masts and a giantess turned to stone (didn't make it back before daylight)
Sue searching for birds in the sea cliffs
Vik shore
Seljarlandsfoss
Seljarlandsfoss - rainbow
Seljarlandsfoss - going behind it
Church back near Reykjavik, near president's house
Blue Lagoon - spa
Airport
Heading home
