Iceland

[derek111]

@Oaktavia those sweaters are incredible! Looks like you two are having an amazing time.

[Oaktavia]

@derek111 said in Iceland:

@Oaktavia those sweaters are incredible! Looks like you two are having an amazing time.

I can't wait to wear the sweater back home when it gets cold and rainy. They were perfect for Iceland weather!

[Oaktavia]

I love how many of the homes and buildings there had moss and grasses growing on the rooves. This one was well lit and caught my eye. We were at a gift shop in the middle of nowhere.

This was a view of a mountain/hill right outside of our Airbnb. There were many of these hills in every direction. We were unable to see how tall they were until this day when the fog subsided.

These red rocks were on a path next to the lake. I thought the denim looked neat next to it.

These are Icelandic horses. They are often mistook at ponies but hey are indeed a specific breed of horse native to the country. Icelanders do not like it when you call them ponies. I found a tooth from one of these horses a few miles from these particular horses. I found two actually.

This lighthouse was both eerie and beautiful at the same time. Nobody was around (aside from the horses) and the lighthouse door was locked. There was a loud calling raven that circled around Amanda and I as we walked around the tower. It reminded me of a scene from Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain.

I quite like this particular photo from standing on the platform of the lighthouse and want to use it as a reference for a painting.

These are black sand beaches that we visited. I found a good amount of seaglass here! I also found some tumbled ceramic pieces that were really cool looking. Some of the seaglass had words imprinted onto it. We were going to go to the black sand beaches in Game of Thrones, but a group of tourists had to get rescued after a sneaker wave trapped them in a cave. That and it was two hours one way. It turned out there are a lot of beaches with black and in Iceland and we went to two that were closer.

These candies were left for us to try from our Airbnb host. They were delicious and tasted like Kit Kat bars. 10/10 would recommend.

Lastly for this post are images of an Icelandic lake inside of an inactive volcano. It looked much bigger in person...if you look at the people down by the water and across the rim of the volcano you can get a better idea of the scale.

I have more photos and will post again in about a week. Hope you enjoy! I miss this place a lot!

[tody]

Most excellent photos!

[goosehd]

@Oaktavia Love it!! Thank you for sharing

[Oaktavia]

@tody @goosehd I have edited the post with captions. Thanks!

[ROman]

@Oaktavia Great journey through Iceland. Thanks for sharing.

[Oaktavia]

@ROman thanks for taking the time to check our the posts. I will continue to add more. It really is a special place.

[Mizmazzle]

@Oaktavia what I love about these photos, aside from their striking beauty, is how void of people it looks. I know Iceland has a really small population…but these photos really capture the vastness and remoteness of the country.

[Oaktavia]

@Mizmazzle About 37% of Iceland's population lives outside of the capital city of Reykjavik so yep it is pretty empty as far as people go. That is why I liked it so much, it felt like we had the place to ourselves at times.

[Tago Mago]

@Oaktavia Gosport must have felt like a shock to the system after the peace and solitude on Iceland. Pics look great btw

[Oaktavia]

@Tago-Mago Gosport was different enough from home yet familiar from all of the films and TV shows I had watched that it felt pretty cool actually. It was a nice transition from Iceland to home. Had I went straight home, it would have been extreme reverse culture shock.