i couldn't sleep at 4:30am, and went for a walk to photograph the sunrise |
mountains behind the town |
sunrise over the water |
town, sky, lenticular clouds |
sunrise over the harbor |
Sauðárkrókur's black sand beach at sunrise |
sunrise over a jetty |
mountains behind the town |
sunrise over water and mountains |
realistically, this is the best photo of a lenticular cloud i will ever take |
more mountains |
more black sand beach waves |
sunrise over the mountains getting redder |
sky over jetty |
more sunrise over the harbor |
a building in town |
a bird in the sunrise |
one last shot of this sunrise |
stone steps leading to nowhere, found at our hotel |
historical owners of Hotel Tindastóll |
leaving the base of the fjord, for real this time |
groove up a mountainside |
morning view across the fjord |
ooh, look at that roof |
Bill and Gina are amused by something while we wait in Hofsós |
David, Bill, and Gina, still waiting to get underway |
still not underway |
finally underway (40 minutes later, and a few km up the coast) |
i took a bunch of photos of this because the land bridge didn't make visual sense to me; i thought it must be an optical illusion |
turns out this is þórðarhöfði, an early Ice Age volcanic island which is actually attached to land |
you can walk there (we didn't) |
lake by the side of the road |
mountains by the side of the road |
much horses |
Bill, Joe, and Sarah, ready to go |
mountains |
road and mountains and cyclist |
Sarah, underway |
it's less fjord and more ocean at this point |
geothermal something something? |
one sheep |
two sheep |
water and land, possibly a sheep or two |
the road ahead along the coast |
road and mountains across an inlet (the Miklavatn?) |
houses across the inlet |
a sheep looking at the camera for once |
field and mountains |
coastal water feature |
road, houses, mountains |
closer view of that water feature |
a sheep eating lunch with its hay bale friends |
a sheep impersonating its hay bale friends |
landscape with red grasses, and also some sheep |
the group, zooming towards the interior |
mountains near our lunch stop |
Gina observes some mountains |
look what we found at our lunch stop! |
Gina and Scott investigate the trampoline |
the trampoline works! |
more trampoline experiments |
trampoline hijinks continue |
our work here is done |
the base of Miklavatn as we head back to the coast after lunch |
inland, with haybales |
a map |
the road behind us towards the interior |
the road ahead; please note gravel |
most of the group walking up the gravel road |
south view along the water, plus riders remounting their bikes |
more water view |
the tower watches us back |
riders walking their bikes away from gorgeous mountains |
snow! |
last view across Miklavatn before we head north again |
next stop, Greenland |
Sarah in front of water and mountains at a rest stop |
Varúð! (also some sheep hiding at the base of the sign) |
sheep, not hiding |
Sarah, about to see a nice ocean view over the top of this hill |
riders, descending |
red mountainside |
brown mountainside |
view south down the coast |
more sheep |
more coast |
the road ahead |
Gina and Bill walk their bikes uphill |
the road is terrible gravel, but it's real pretty here |
this is probably a troll |
mountains inland |
this road is paved! still pretty |
Joe, zooming out of a very fun curved (and paved!) downhill segment on the north coast |
sheep + arctic ocean = sheep |
the view back along the coast |
the road ahead; next stop Siglufjörður (the town) |
Scott approaching the top of a hill |
the Sauðanes household and lighthouse on the north coast |
a boat! |
a closer look at the lighthouse |
mountains |
the group, ready to finish the ride |
this is a very small troll |
looking across the end of Siglufjöorður (the fjord) |
one tunnel later, the view across the fjord again |
road down the fjord into town |
view back up the fjord |
A map! And, yes, it's accurate that you go north to reach Reykjavik. That's roads for you |
a mountain with two colors of ice |
reference unit church of Siglufjöorður |
anti-landslide posts on a mountain |
view of the harbor from our hotel window: not a great photo, but it was a great view |
view across the harbor |
for once i photographed this building because of the tree art, not the metal roof |
a brennavin sour! |
butter served on a (non-edible) rock |
seafood soup at dinner |
lamb at dinner |
creme brulee at dinner |