On this trip to Iceland we visited the inlands accompanied by Einar and his 4-wheel drive car. The goal was Lantmannalaugar east of Hekla, a magnificent landscape with liparip mountains, geothermal activity and beautiful trecks. Also visited a few seabird nesting cliffs at the Reykjanes coast.
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Green greener greenest!
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White and green
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Lava landscape with colorful crater
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Light liparite rocks contrasting dark lava sand
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Rainbow
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The sky opens
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Light colored liparite
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Snow fingers facing north
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Hot springs at the end of the lava field
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Probably Northern rock-cress (
Cardaminopsis pe...
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Moss campion (
Silene acaulis ssp arctica) is a...
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Purple mountain saxifrage (
Saxifraga oppositif...
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Creeping willow (
Salix repens) creeping in the...
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Eastward wiew from Loðmundur
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Stiff Sedge (
Carex bigelowii)
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Arctic willow (
Salix arctica)
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Loðmundur
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European golden plover (
Pluvialis apricaria)
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Big feet!
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Camouflaged chick
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at Frostastaðavatn
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green, chemistry rather than biology
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Brennisteinsalda (sulphur mountain)
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Northward view from Bláhnúkur of Norðurbarmur
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View from Bláhnúkur of Norðurbarmur and Jökulg...
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Laugahraun (the lava field) och Jökulgilsá (th...
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Frog Orchid (
Coeloglossum viride ssp islandicu...
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Alpine Marsh Violet (
Viola palustris)
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steam from the underground
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At the foot of Brennisteinsalda (Sulphur mount...
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Steam through the scree
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Suðurnámur
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Landmannalaugar, warm water to lounge into
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Red-necked phalarope (
Phalaropus lobatus)
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Red-necked phalarope (
Phalaropus lobatus)
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Red-necked phalarope (
Phalaropus lobatus)
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Miniature Iceland formed by floating green alg...
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reconstructed farm from the 12th century
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Woolly willow (
Salix lanata)
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Eightpetal mountain-avens (
Dryas octopetala, b...
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Black-legged kittiwake (
Rissa tridactyla)
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Black guillemot (
Cepphus grylle)
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Beautiful lichen
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Flies on thrift (
Statice armeria)
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Kittiwake (
Rissa tridactyla)
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Fulmar (
Fulmarus glacialis)
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Fulmar (
Fulmarus glacialis)
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Alpine Fleabane (
Erigeron borealis)
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Dwarf Willow (S. herbacea)
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Oystercatcher (
Haematopus ostralegus)
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Oystercatcher (
Haematopus ostralegus)
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Arctic creeping thyme at driftwood(
Thymus prae...
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Lichens on driftwood
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Pebble stone beach
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Basalt pillars
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Kittiwake (
Rissa tridactyla)
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Razorbill (
Alca torda)
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Common murre (
Uria aalge), Guillemot
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Snow bunting (
Plectrophenax nivalis)
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Evening light
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Snæfellsjökull at the horizon
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Snæfellsjökull far out (100 km) with midnight ...
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Thrift, a survival artist
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On the way down from Helgafell
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Large areas with Nootka lupin, an Alaskan migr
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