Our first stop was at a fjord...with an amazing view. We could technically see the Arctic Circle from here! The water and sky were parallel until the horizon, where they merged together. It looked like we were at the end of the world.
Overheard in Iceland:
British Guy 1: Could you help us with directions?
British Guy 2: Oh I'm no use for directions out here...but if you go left you'll run into nothing, and if you go right you'll run into nothing...so either way you'll reach the same nothing!
There were lots of nature photographers at this overlook...and everyone was excited because there were Puffins!
"Hark! I spot a Puffin out yonder!"
Must...photograph...puffin...
He just chillin on the rocks
Better than photographing puffins...photographing people photographing puffins....SHH, he's found one
Now the photographers gather, having spotted their prey
After the puffin-palooza, we went to Ásbyrgi, which is a horseshoe shaped canyon in the Jökulsárgljúfur National Park. "Nicknamed Sleipnir's footprint, it is said that the canyon was formed when Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, touched one of its feet to the ground here." (quoteth Wikipedia)
There was an amazing moss-filled lake in the canyon...and I ran into some clouds of midges...and oh my god they were awful
I thought the rocks looked like they were wearing little toupees.
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