Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Snieffleness Iceland

We found this unmarked blowhole. Notice the rainbow. Sitting on the coast.


Rock formation on coastline.
There is only one work for Iceland - BEAUTIFUL!!!! Sister Koyle and Sharon
Look at the blue, blue ocean.
Here we are standing by a rock viking statue. This is a slit in the rock caused from the earth shifting. It was a long hike up to it, but Travis and my mom did it. Another beautiful waterfall.
And another one.
The big glacier in the back is the glacier that "Journey to the Center of the earth" was about. The farmers wrap their hay in these white bags to keep the moisture off. I thought they looked like giant marshmellows.
We stopped at this one place and seen a bunch of seals.
Here is another one. Maybe it's the same one, just different view. We will pretend its a different one.

Barnafoss Iceland

Iceland is full of beautiful waterfalls!!!
I love how blue the water is.



Thursday, June 3, 2010

Iceland: the Golden Circle

This is the Kerith crater that was formed from an explosion from lava going over a pool of cool water. The water was a pretty bluish green color. This is a lawn mower here in Iceland. Notice it has no wheels. It just skids along the grass. You hold on to a rope and lower it down the hill, then pull it back up. Travis thought this was pretty interesting.
There are lots of huge lava rock in Iceland.
This is at pingvallir, which is a place where the early settlers met to make executive decisions for the country. The path we are on is the mid-Atlantic ridge, where Europe and America were at one time joined. Iceland is the only country that has land on the ridge. It's not often you can be stepping on two continents at the same time.
This is one of many cool waterfalls. It is named Laxifoss.
This is the strokkur geyser. It is the 4th largest geyser in the world, coming in right after Old Faithful. It errupts every 5 to 8 minutes. Here is Travis and my mom.
Strokkur, just starting to erupt.

These waterfalls are called gullfoss. They were beautiful.

Here is Sharon, with her mom and dad, and gullfoss in the back.
 
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