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Monday, July 2, 2012

Jokulsarlon – It Must Mean “Most Beautiful Place, Ever” in English

Jokulsarlon is a large lagoon filled with icebergs broken off from the Breidamerkurjokull glacier. It is impossibly beautiful. It is really easy to spend hours and hours staring into the water watching the giant bizarrely shaped chunks of blue ice flow out towards the sea. The lagoon is also full of skuas, Arctic terns, seals and ducks.






 

We walked over to the other side and down to the beach where the tide going out had stranded several large blocks of ice on the black volcanic sand. We wandered the beach for some time watching icebergs crash and roll in the surf.

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