Saturday, 26 July 2008

Had to Eat the Vegetarians - Part 6

Short one for today. Click for Part 1.
Here was Hekla mountain the next morning in all of her glory.
Livia found some vegetation.
Our bus. It doesn't look like much, but on this day, that puppy forded about 15 rivers.
This lake (labeled on the photo) was absolutely stunning. A real jolt of colour in the barren landscape. Gyða told us a legend about a group that was living nearby, ate some fish stew and died, and everyone assumed that the fish must have been poisonous. So we always referred to this as Poisoned Fish Lake. When I went to find the real name of the lake, it took me forever. Seems that no one else calls it that. I found it via Google Earth.
Behind me when I was taking the lake picture is this small, cratered hill.
Landmannalaugar was stunning. The picture looks ridiculous with all of the colours, but that's really how it looked. Plus, there was a lava field and a naturally hot stream. I wish I had taken more pictures.
Heading south.
This lovely stuff above is called Fountain Apple Moss, Philonotis fontana. It is such a refreshing sight on the bleak slag hills and marks where there is water.

Finally, grass and trees appeared about an hour before we arrived at our guest house.

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