There was far more ice crammed into the lagoon that I'd seen before.

Trying to find a photo was hard in this chaotic scene.

The icebergs are still too big to move further and are stuck until they lose their size.

Further inland there is less ice because it collects at the entrance to the channel.

This information board shows how the glacier has receded.

Here you can see the water rushing past the damn of ice on its way to the sea.

This video shows the dam of ice more clearly. So many birds too.

Jökulsárlón

July 1, 2023 in Iceland ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

I love this place and spent the rest of the evening here hoping for some nice light for photography. In fact, I spent so long here I ran out of food options and ended up with an evening meal of Cornflakes, a cereal bar and coffee just before bed. Crazy.

I took loads of photos on the big camera, trying to find interesting compositions amongst the ... wait for it ... icebergs.

The water here is a lake at the end of a large glacier that calves ice into it then near the coast there is a channel where the bergs drift out to sea when they're small enough not to get stuck in it. Tonight there were icebergs stuck there acting as a dam which perhaps explained why the lagoon water level was a little higher than I'd seen before.

Eventually the better light arrived so hopefully I got some good photos, then I headed back to the campsite for the night which was a 40 minute drive away. It was therefore about 12.30am when I was eating Cornflakes. 🙄Read more