When we were kids my brother and I loved to take photos of each other that looked like we were on another planet (science fiction nerdiness runs in the family). Oh if he could have seen this!
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| Yikes! Somehow I think we took a wrong turn and ended up on the moon! |
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| The route |
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| Leaving Baltimore |
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| Sunrise just before landing in Iceland |
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| The landscape is so harsh and forbidding they trained for the moon landings here |
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| More moonscape. I kept stopping to take pictures thinking it couldn’t get any weirder…and it kept getting even more so! |
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| Close up. It’s not quite lifeless here, there’s lichen, moss, some scrubby brush or grasses rarely. Once we saw a small clump of pine trees in the shelter of a hill. |
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| Steam from the geothermal power plant…and the hot springs that was our first destination of the day. |
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| There was one stretch of road with warning signs not to stop because the road was hot. It crossed a lava field. Obvs you couldn’t walk there or pause for pix either, but it was fresh and black even more dramatic than this. |
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| Life abides. Teeny tiny plants establishing themselves. |
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| The water is hot, comes from 2 km deep, saline, and filled with fine silica that gives it the milky appearance. |
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| The hot springs “Blue Lagoon” we soaked in. The water supposedly has healing properties for psoriasis. After a long flight it was very relaxing. |
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| Somehow this scene echoes the rock stacking that drives my Arubian friends rightfully crazy. Except on Aruba it's warm and sunny, and on Iceland it ... isn't. |
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| Milky blue and white water is NOT reflecting a sunny sky — it was heavy overcast all day. This is just the mineral water from 2 km deep. |
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| Brown and gray, silvery green and black, are the only colours we saw all day except the mineral blue and white water. |
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| After all that a filling meal was called for. We happened on this small cafe with wonderful fish and chips (haddock, yum) and Icelandic fish stew (cod, potatoes, cream, and cheese). We decided to skip whale, puffin, or fermented shark meat (!!) all of which we saw on other menus. Yikes! |
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