Iceland for tourists

[Tero]

This was back in early 2000s for us. I dug up the bird pictures first. More later. Add your own as needed.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I hope you've stopped puffin since then.

[Tero]

a shorebird...not hard to ID

[Azathoth]

This was back in early 2000s for us. I dug up the bird pictures first. More later. Add your own as needed.

nom

meh: attachment didnt quote. Puffins are nom

[Tero]

No, I puffed these in Iceland, then two more in Canada a few years later. You can see them at the zoo here if you want easy photography.
I have no idea how Story works in Photobucket. It is here:

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[Tero]

[Tero]

[Tero]

snow bunting

[Tero]

[Tero]

I have sharper pictures of scenery, the bird pictures are all from a video camera. As are all above.



A museum on the outskirts of Reykjavik, city in back ground.

[macdoc]

Enjoyed ourselves - will go back tho I understand the locals are getting a bit tourist weary.

Europe on the right, North American plate on the left...


you can actually hop the rift here



you walk right down the split



and it's the site of the oldest democratic parliament the Althing as our traditionally dressed guide was telling us here on the site of it. Was held here even well into the 20th century and started in the 9th



THe word geyser originated here....in fact right here











it referred to one specific one but there are several to wander around through.

Lovely falls on the Golden Loop

[Tero]

I thought I saw the actual rift there as well. But there is more. See next post.

[Tero]

Where the tourists are taken is A, and the crack is obvious there. But see all the other cracks running parallel to it.

[Jason]

Mmmm.. Honey-Braised Puffin. Nom.

[Tero]

we did find some ice: