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Crossing the Skeiðará river on the way to the Skaftafell National Park.
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A little cascade near the Systrastapi rock
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Some driver tried to drive up to the river and got stuck with his car all the way to the doors in the loose gravel ! Don't do off-road in Iceland 😜
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We skipped the Skaftafell National Park as the only thing we could have done there were pretty exhausting hikes to a glacier and we had seen hundreds of glaciers the week before in Greenland.
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Instead we went to the adjacent Svínafellsjökull Glacier. A terrible gravel road brings you close to the snout of the glacier. We attempted to do it but with a normal car (not a 4 by 4) and were not confident the car could make it. However about 1 km East of that road is another very good road leading to a small pond and an easy walk. This was much better and the view were great. Aside from a bus that unloaded a group of hurried tourist we were the only ones there !!
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The crevassed surface of the glacier. Each peak is 1-3 m tall
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Heather grows here between the rocks
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Fjallsárlón glacier lake
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Jökulsárlón glacier lake
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Note the 2 person walking on the right shore. They give an idea of the size of the bergy bits
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A few stranded melting icebergs with pretty transparency and shape
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Icebergs incrusted with powered rocks
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The snout of the glacier
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Some beautiful clear ice carved in delicate curves
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Very sensuous curves
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Tiny carving almost like lizard scales
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Further down the road a young couple were preparing their wedding photographs. I could not resist 1) to wave congratulations to them and 2) snap a picture of the bride with her warm jacket: so cute !
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The fjord before Hofn
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Two cygnets Whooper swans
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The mother. She has a orange spot on the back of the neck, possibly marks from the male holding her neck during mating
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The male Whooper swan
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The cygnets from the previous and current year
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