Iceland round trip 2016 (the island of Iceland circled counterclockwise)

[Thomas G]

Hugh, I believe that Iceland had forests in the past.
It consisted mostly of birch and osier and covered perhaps 60% of the surface. That was around the year 900.
Before the end of the Middle Ages north Norwegian settlers used it up and the sheep they brought finished the remains and the sprouts.
There exists an old report already stating the devastation.
See 'Reise igiennem Island' , Eggert Ólafsson, Bjarni Pálsson, Danmark, 1772.
Today there are initiatives, private and public, for reforestation.

23 - 11 no trees here
23 - 12 crown of the day

[Thomas G]

Day 24. Eventually we reached the glacier zone in the south.


24 - 1 fire and ice
24 - 2 at the glacier tongue
24 - 3 savouring the scene (too impressed to shoot)
24 - 4 3
24 - 5 at the glacier front

[Thomas G]

Still at Skaftafell Glacier.

24 - 6 black & blue
24 - 7 glacier lagoon
24 - 8 cold impact
24 - 9 en noir et blanc
24 - 10 1556 (alone in the dark)

[Thomas G]

Day 24 - late afternoon and evening. Skaftafjell fell into shadows as the sun went on and we moved on to the big lagoons and ice beaches.

24 - 11 la bestia
24 - 12 cold as ice
24 - 13 power lines
24 - 14 excape to the cruel sea
24 - 15 short living germs on the black beach

[Erik Lund]

Very nice ice images! The last one is really a great capture - the diamond on the black beach. Thanks!

[Thomas G]

Very nice ice images! The last one is really a great capture - the diamond on the black beach. Thanks!

Thank you, Erik.

24 - 16 beach chrystal for Erik

[Erik Lund]

Nice one Thanks

[ColinM]

Great ice and precious crystals Thomas

[Akira]

Beautiful captures of different phases of ice!

[golunvolo]

Enjoying the trip still 

  Black and blue" streaks a deeper cord. Love it

[Thomas G]

Great ice and precious crystals Thomas

Beautiful captures of different phases of ice!

Enjoying the trip still 
  Black and blue" streaks a deeper cord. Love it

Thank you, Colin.
Appreciate you like them, Akira.
You are always welcome, Paco.

24 - 16 ice in the lagoon (for Colin)
24 - 17 ice in the lagoon (for Akira)
24 - 18 ice in the lagoon (for Pako)

[Thomas G]

Day 25. East coast. The trip is slowly turning back to it's beginning.

Part 1. Harbour and little town Höfn.

25 - 1 out there
25 - 2 that light
25 - 3 character
25 - 4 life
25 - 5 slash

[Jakov Minić]

Thomas, fantastic thread. Just went through the many photographs you have posted. You can easily print an entire book about Iceland!

[Anirban Halder]

Thomas, fantastic thread. Just went through the many photographs you have posted. You can easily print an entire book about Iceland!

+1

This is one of most organized travel diary I've come across with consistent high quality and diverse images. Thank you Thomas.

[HCS]

What all the others say, great, great stuff.

But #1984 could be a shot straight from a movie about dooms day. What a stunner!