Iceberg – Dead Ahead!

Iceberg – Dead Ahead!

A couple of hikes to kick the day off for us, then a zodiac ride to visit a glacier!

The first one is going to take us to the foot of one of the 32 tongues of the glacier covering the top of Iceland. Turns out hike is a strong word for this one, from the parking lot to the glacier was 20 minutes. Low effort with high reward, my kind of hike!

The foot of the Svínafellsjökull glacier

Our second one is a 10 minute drive away to the next parking lot. And this one comes with a campground full of campers. Luckily, we are not campers! Lol

We get to see three waterfalls in the first 45 minutes on this one. Then, once we keep going for another 30 minutes we see the grand lookout. Here, you can see forever. We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again…but this scenery is absolutely stunning!

At the Sjónarnípa viewpoint overlooking the Skaftafell Glacier

Now we’re head over to where the glacier meets the ocean at Glacier Lagoon of all places. Pieces calve off all day long creating multiple icebergs. Big, small, translucent blue, or opaque white – they are all here. And of course we are only see the top 10%, as the remaining 90% is under water.

They call this diamond beach. A beautiful black sand beach covered with iceberg remnants.

This Arctic Tern was not happy with me getting so close to where they were. Turns out it’s mating season, does this mean am I competition?

Just two adventurers, in a zodiac, checking out a glacier

This guys just laid there and let us take his photo for 10 minutes

As we’re investigating the iceberg field for seals, one of the larger ones starts to collapse & tumble right before our very eyes!! Luckily our captain is keeping a respectful distance from these big ones as things got exciting very quickly.

Time now sooth all those muscles in a jacuzzi, how we’ve missed ours.

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