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The Midgard Serpent drinks from the River of Eternity
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Skógafoss in South Iceland is where I spotted the Midgard Serpent
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| Hraunfossar, a series of waterfalls streaming out from the Hallmundarhraun lava field |
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... after a volcano erupted below the Langjökull glacier in the Reykholt region
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| Hvítá River into which the Hraunfossar feeds (hraun is the Icelandic word for lava) |
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Barnafoss, where two boys drowned while crossing a natural bridge,
later destroyed in an earthquake |
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Faxi (Horsemane Falls) or Vatnsleysufoss on the river Tungufljót.
The island looks like a replica of Iceland |
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| Goðafoss, Waterfall of the Gods, in the Bárðardalur district of North-Central Iceland |
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Hvannadalshnúkur, the highest point of Iceland in the Vatnajökull National Park.
You can see the edge of the Vatna Glacier peeping out between the hills |
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Atop the steel monument in memory of those who perished in the glacial flood of 1996, when a subterranean volcanic eruption melted part of the glacier, turning it into a massive torrent
of cold black apocalypse |
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This section of twisted steel was salvaged from a bridge destroyed by the glacial flood.
Note the cosmic serpent graffito |
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British students Ian Harrison & Tony Prosser went missing on a sunny day in August
1953 while doing field work on a glacier near Skaftafell. They were caught in a sudden
blizzard. Despite an intensive search-&-rescue operation, their bodies were never found.
But 50 years later in 2003, melting ice uncovered their camping gear |
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| Jökulsárlón Glacier Lake & a Grumpy Iceman |
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| Blocks of ice melting on the beach |
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| Where glacier meets the open sea |
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Rapid meltdown as summer approaches
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| Clambering around the loose scree of a moraine hill |
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| Kirsten from Austria with a tiny piece of melting glacier |
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| Icicles on the mudguard of our Mercedes mini-bus |
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| The road across the frozen North with Captain Palli at the wheel |
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| Monochrome landscape |
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| Still snowcapped in the first week of May |
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| Snow melting on the lava fields |
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| We saw so many waterfalls I have no idea where this one was & what's it's called! |
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| The Icelandic horse is prized for its gentleness, robustness & steadiness on the gallop |
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| Icelandic winter snack plate of Harðfiskur (dried fish), smoked lamb & rotting shark |
PHOTOS BY ANTARES
courtesy of his Huawei Ascend P6
