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#westfjords

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Danielle<p>A clip to summarise my last trip to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Westfjords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Westfjords</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iceland</span></a> in 2018.</p><p>The weather was interesting, the views were also interesting…the roads were muddy…and my car was tiny. Exiting, scary, beautiful, fascinating, impressive. </p><p>So kind of a good trip. (Why do I keep thinking that I always have good weather in Iceland? 🤷‍♀️)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/roadtrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roadtrip</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dashcam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dashcam</span></a></p>
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Firda

Took these photos on our visit to Samuel Jónsson Art Museum in Selárdalur, Westfjords, Iceland six years ago. We met Gerhard König, a German sculptor who led the restoration work there. He was patching some cracks on one of the buildings when we approached him. He told us that every time he patched a crack, another one appeared somewhere else! 🙃

Here's a good article about the museum and the artist: grapevine.is/travel/2018/05/30

A simple, grey church with a small minaret.
A white, two-storey building with a balcony on the top floor, pink trims, and a towering mountain in the background.
A statue of man in grey with his hand over his eyes in front of a black, wooden building with white trims.
Very simplistic statue of pale-coloured horses with dark mane circling a fountain.
#TravelThursday#ThrowbackThursday#Westfjords
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Firda

We usually go to Iceland in late Spring. It's nesting time, which means it's prime time for Arctic tern attacks. Met this Arctic tern in front of a church on the Strandir coast in Westfjords, obviously not impressed with us for daring to stop there to check out the church. It there was any nest nearby, I didn't see it. But then again, I wasn't outside the car for very long. I ran back into the car right after I took this photo because you don't need to be an ornithologist to tell when an Arctic tern is going after you.

An Arctic tern taking flight from a fence post amid a landscape wrapped in thick fog.
#PhotoMonday#FotoMontag#Birds
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Mo's Iceland photos

Thunderous

This is gorgeous Dynjandi, it's name derived from the #Icelandic "dynja" meaning "thunder".

Situated in Arnarfjörður in the #Westfjords of #Iceland, this wedding veil of water is the topmost of seven drops.
In total, it tumbles down 100m/328ft of mountainside.
The top falls has this lovely shape - 30m/98ft wide at the top and 60m/197ft at the bottom - due to basalt steps in the rock, which slow down the water and aerate it.

@photography

A colour photo of a mountainside under a cloudy sky, with sunlight from the right. In the centre of the shot is a waterfall, dropping from near the top of the frame to almost the bottom. The rock around it is brown and grey, and has vegetation on the more horizontal surfaces. The waterfall itself is white right from the top, as the rockface has steps in it which the water is hitting all the way down. It spreads out into a wedge shape, almost a trapezoid. The top of another falls is visible below it.
#WaterfallWednesday#LandscapePhotography
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Hannes

Hard to describe the feeling standing in the sunshine on a 500m cliff, looking down on waves of mist rolling over the sea. Maybe this description from wayfinding.guide helps:

𝐿𝑎́𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑗𝑎𝑟𝑔: 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙, 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛-𝑙𝑖𝑡 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑎-𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑛-𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑓𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠.

View onto coastline cliffs that fall 500m straight into the sea. Thick mist obscures the water, but the sun shines onto the cliffs and only few clouds dot the blue sky. Closer looks reveal a few birds, and in the distance Raudarsandur beach separates the mountains from the sea.
#Iceland#Hiking#Westfjords
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