Iceland Photo Gallery - Weeks 7~8

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1 - Bruggsmiðjan Micro-brewery
 at Árskógssandur
2 - Fishing boats at port of Dalvík
 against mountainous backdrop
3 - Fishing boats and fisheries
 support vessels at Dalvík harbour
4 - Black-tailed Godwit
(Limosa limosa) at Svarfaðardalur

5 - Árskógssandur port backed by snow-capped Látraströnd mountains 6 - Hrísey ferry M/V Sævar pulling
 into Árskógssandur harbour
7 - Crossing from Árskógssandur to
Hrísey Island on ferry M/V Sævar
8 - Hrísey's lupin-lined quayside
against snowy mainland mountains

 
9 - Volcanic dyke on Hrísey coast with snow-capped Látraströnd peaks 10 - Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
  feeding among scrub on Hrísey
11 - Unloading and crating today's
 catch at Hrísey fishing harbour
12 - Ólafsfjörður viewed from the
port with its mountainous backdrop

 
13 - Fishing harbour at Ólafsfjörður
enclosed by surrounding mountains
14 - A wet night's camp at
Ólafsfjörður municipal campsite
15 - Approach to
 Héðinsfjarðargöng Tunnels
16 - Siglufjörður Camping set in the
  centre of town by the fishing dock

 
17 - Siglufjörður's fishing dock
looking across to centre of town
18 - Siglufjörður fishing harbour over-towered by cloud-covered mountains 19 - Decaying wooden piers of
 Siglufjörður's former herring dock
20 - Long-line fishing boats
 in Siglufjörður's fish dock

 
21 - Strákagöng Tunnel 830m long
 through the headland to Sauðanes
22 - Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
  near to Höfðavatn mud-flats
23 - Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax
nivalis
) on Þórðarhöfði boulder bank
24 - Hofsós harbour with Drangey
    volcanic plug on skyline

 
25 - Hofsós Camping against backdrop
 of Tröllskagi peaks and valleys
26 - Hofsós swimming pool with view
 extending across fjord to mountains
27 - Grey basalt polygonal column
bases on fjord-side shingle at Hofsós
28 - Hofsá river tumbling down from
 Tröllskagi mountains to the sea

 
29 - Hólar cathedral church set under
 Hólabyrða mountain in Hjaltadalur
30 - Guðbrandur Þorláksson's 1584
 Icelandic translation of Bible
31 - Peaceful setting of Hólar
 cathedral church in Hjaltadalur
32 - Turf-walled and roofed
 farmstead at Glaumbær

 
33 - Gabled-frontage of Glaumbær
 turf-walled farmstead complex
34 - External turf block walls
  of Glaumbær farmstead
35 - Turf block wall and building
 construction at Glaumbær
36 - Storage pantry for conserved
foodstuffs at Glaumbær farmstead

 
37 - Baðstofa living and sleeping space
 at Glaumbær turf-walled farmstead
38 - Víðimýri turf-walled chapel
  near to Varmahlíð
39 - Breakfast in the arboreal
   setting of Varmahlíð Camping
40 - Fishing harbour
  at Sauðárkrókur

 
41 - Sauðárkrókur fish-drying frames
    now empty and abandoned
42 - Boats moored at the quay
   of Skagaströnd fishing harbour
43 - Greylag Geese and goslings on
 banks of Blanda river at Blönduós
44 - Þingeyrar church in the
isolated farmlands of Húnafjörður

 
45 - Icelandic horses grazing
 Húnafjörður pastures at Þingeyrar
46 - Lupins growing along the
  Víðidalsá estuary at Húnafjörður
47 - Kolufossar waterfalls
 and Kolugljúfur Canyon
48 - Kolugljúfur Canyon

 
49 - Víðidalsá dropping
  over Kolufossar waterfalls
50 - The depths of the
Kolugljúfur Canyon
51 - A sunny evening at
 Hvammstangi Camping
52 - Hvammstangi fishing harbour

 
53 - Oystercatcher with chick
 at Gálmaströnd wild beach
54 - Oystercatcher with juvenile young
 wading at Gálmaströnd wild beach
55 - Breakfast on a sunny morning
  at Hólmavík Camping
56 - Hólmavík fishing harbour
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