Iceland...

16 Jun 07 @ 02:30 PM  category » travel

I took a short weekend trip to Iceland last weekend. While it is a country with few people and no trees, the scenery is rather spectacular - black volcanic sand, green moss and purple heather, with glaciers looming on the horizon.

We tooled around on the south coast, went off-roading and snowmobiling on a glacier, and I of course took a spell in the Blue Lagoon.

Here's an old USN plane crashed in the middle of nowhere on a beach...

and here's Denny, best described as a "fixer", who makes sure people get the gear they need up somewhere in the back of beyond on shoots, with his full service kitchen which sits on top of an old Russian army truck, which can go *anywhere*...and his simply enormous amphibious tank which was used in the Tomb Raider movie...

 

 

At a spot where the North American and European tectonic plates meet, there is a sandy channel between the walls of the two plates, which are drifting apart at something like 6cm a year or something (don't quote me on that!). So it was highly amusing to see, drawn out

on the sand below "The Bridge Between Two Continents", a big heart with the words "Jesus Still (Loves) You". Gotta love those creationists making their position clear wherever and whenever they can!

Iceland is famous for trolls too...

 

 

And here's the Blue Lagoon, which is really very blue indeed...

  Iceland - Flickr Pix