Gudrun's photos
Northern lights and starry sky
Waiting game
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Quarter past nine on Ringvassøya- whiling away the time, waiting for northern lights. No more luck, it started to snow....
Aurora over Ringvassøya
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7.52 p.m.- a night of Aurora watching started promising with a low arc and some more green behind the clouds. The idea was to have the northern lights reflected in the water and ice - it was not to be.
Ominous clouds over Breiðafjörður
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Aprroaching Brjánslækur under a threatening cloud. The stormy weather with winds blowing to the south was rather untypical for the season.
Stormy Breiðafjörður
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Approaching Brjánslækur and Vestfirðir on ferry Baldur from Stykkisholmur. This was the calm part of the passage, in the open fjord the waves came over the bridge forcing everybody inside.
Breiðafjörður
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Crossing Breiðafjörður on ferry Baldur from Stykkisholmur to Brjánslækur- looking back to Flatey and Snæfellsnes.
Kjeungskjær fyr
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20,6 m high Kjeungskjær Fyr was built in 1880 on a skerry in Bugnfjord and automated in 1987. Kjeungskjær is the only octogonal lighthouse in Norway, probably the most well known and certainly one of the hardest to pronounce,-)
Asenvågøy fyr
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Asenvågøy fyr was built in 1921 for the fishermen of Frohavet. It was automated in 1975.
David and Goliath
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Stabben Fyr dwarved by by a supply ship.
Stabben lighthouse was built in 1867 on a small skerry near Florø. It was automated in 1975 and came under protection as a cultural monument in 1999.
Lighthouse list of Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening: www.fyr.no
Rural Iceland
Tölt
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Near Varmahlíð, Skagafjörður, one of the main centres of horse breeding in Iceland.
Tölt is a gait unique to Icelandic horses which enables them to move over rough terrain for a long time without tiring.
Skarðsviti on Vatnsnes peninsula
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This lighthouse from 1950 is 14m high and looks over Miðfjörður (Húnaflói) towards Vestfirðir. Vatnsnes peninsula lies on an old rift zone which has become inactive 5 mio years ago.
Mývatn Panorama from Skútustaðir
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Lake Mývatn is famous for its many rootless cones (pseudocraters) which were formed by steam explosions in the Younger Laxárdalur lava flow ca. 2300 years ago. It also is a RAMSAR site due to the many duck species breeding on the lake.
Kolugljúfur
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Looking down into Kolugljúfur canyon. A small deep pool reflects the blue sky.
Kolufoss
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River Víðidalsá flows through 40-50m deep Kolugljúfur canyon. Folklore has it that a female troll called Kola dug the gorge.
Drying fish heads at Sauðárkrókur harbour
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Not so very long ago Icelanders ate the fish heads themselves and exported the fillets. Now the heads are exported to Africa.
Sauðárkrókur
