We arrived at this iconic location at exactly the same time as a million tour buses, as you can see. Okay, so we exaggerate!
We've renamed this beach "Penguin Beach" because that's what we think allもっと詳しく
We arrived at this iconic location at exactly the same time as a million tour buses, as you can see. Okay, so we exaggerate!
We've renamed this beach "Penguin Beach" because that's what we think allもっと詳しく
This marked the end of the available light today and was taken on our journey to Hofn, which was around 150 miles. We arrived at our accommodation about 7pm but then had to drive 24 miles to findもっと詳しく
We left our accommodation this morning in low spirits. The weather was heavily overcast, it was wet - the very wet stuff where you get very wet, wetter than a bank holiday in Blackpool and that's veryもっと詳しく
So, having taken more photographs than you'd be prepared to suffer, we then took a break in the cafe where hot soup and coffee were the order of the day. Not in the same bowl, by the way ... we areもっと詳しく
About six miles from Jökulsárlón there is another, smaller lagoon not so well known by the Penguins. This is Fjallsárlón and in the fading light, and the continuing torrential rain, we decided toもっと詳しく
We woke this morning to a pleasant surprise of sunshine and clouds and much warmer too so with luck we would remain dry.
Having visited the smaller glacial lagoon of Fjallsárlón in the rain weもっと詳しく
This is very different to Jökulsárlón in that it is much less intimate - the drifting ice is much further away and less of it, though perhaps this was simply as it is now, today as Jökulsárlónもっと詳しく
Travelling to the National Park Visitor Centre to meet our guide, the weather had changed from being a lovely sunny day to grey cloud and dull light. This was disappointing because our scheduled walkもっと詳しく
Today has been a travelling day really, with the odd stop (or three) for photos on the way. Maybe we're Penguins today!
After breakfast we took the first photo of the view from where we've stayed theもっと詳しく