Iceland

[TheMedz]

As promised at the get together last Thursday.

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[Blodyn]

What beautiful photos, thank you so much for posting them.  It looks an incredible place. 

Did you see the Northern Lights?  Even if you weren't lucky it looks as though you must have had a wonderful time. 

[TheMedz]

and for those of you around in the early 70's a"chilling" reminder of the 2nd Icelandic Cod War

[TheMedz]

Yes we managed to see an amazing display of the Northern Lights at the second attempt. A totally mind blowing experience. Unfortunately none of the pictures came out, we needed Dave with his Camera there to take the photographs

[hollins]

Really enjoyed looking at your photos. What were the daytime temperatures like when you were there?

[TheMedz]

Always sub-zero (-4 to -8) in central Reykjavik. With the lack of winds in the centre it really didn't feel that cold. Free Hot chocolate dispensed on the street corners in the City Centre. The ponds/lakes in the City Centre were however frozen so thickly that you could quite easily walk over them without realising it was was water.

In the more rural parts around Gulfoss (the glacial waterfall in the first photograph) it felt significantly colder than that to the extent you couldn't  look directly at the waterfall for too long because of the frozen spray eating into your face.

Ten minutes down the road from the Gulfoss waterfall were Geysers (second photograph) spouting 30 or 40 metre high plumes of geothermal water at temperatures of between 80 and 90 degrees C.