On our first day we visited Gulfoss waterfall.
Gulfoss waterfall
Thingvellir National Park
We enjoyed lunch here inside the warm, brightly lit greenhouse surrounded by hanging tomato vines.
This is Friðheimar restaurant.
Tomatoes are grown all year long in Friðheimar's geothermal heated greenhouses.
Kerið crater, on Iceland's "Golden Circle", is roughly 55 meters (180 feet) deep.
Kerið crater formed about 5,000 years ago when a cone volcano collapsed into its magma chamber..
Kerið crater
Seljalandsfoss waterfall
Gljúfrabúi waterfall
Gljúfrabúi waterfall
Seljalandsfoss waterfall
We rented this "SUV" at the airport for our 8 day trip through Iceland.
Skógafoss
Skógafoss waterfall has a 60 meter vertical drop.
The rainbows here at Skógafoss are lovely.
Skógafoss falls
Bicky at Skógafoss
Skógafoss
"endless" black beach of basalt
Dyrhólaey Lighthouse was built in 1927 on the south coast. We came here to take pictures of puffins, but early May is too early.
Bicky at Dyrhólaey Lighthouse
The view from Dyrhólaey Lighthouse was breathtaking.
Vestrahorn ("Batman Mountain") on the south coast
Lómagnúpur mountain formed from volcanic activity beneath a large ice sheet.
Hörgslandsklettar's basalt cliffs near Hörgsland Guesthouse on the south coast
Breiðamerkurjökull is a massive glacial tongue (or outlet glacier) that branches off from Vatnajökull, which is the largest ice cap in Europe.
The icebergs that wash up in the surf at Diamond Beach come from Breiðamerkurjökul
Eldhraun is the largest lava field from a single eruption in recorded history, spanning 565 square kilometers (218 square miles) in southern Iceland.
The frozen lava basalt at Eldraun is covered with lichen and moss.
Iceland's craft beers
Bicky at the dock on Iceland's southeast coast in Hofn
Bicky treated me to a lobster dinner at Hofn. Firm, tender and delicious, these tails were the best ever!
