Iceland 0413 143
Better picture of French steaks.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 06:45 AM•Views: 128
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Iceland 0413 146
Gulfoss Falls, which is two cascades totaling 31 meters (11 + 20). It was the windiest day and I did not get to a place where I could get the whole of the lower falls.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 06:59 AM•Views: 132
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Iceland 0413 147
Upper falls. The "snow" is frozen mist from the falls, common to all we saw. See those brave folks out in the mist. THEY saw the lower falls, but it was to wet and windy for me. the walk was over 1/2 mile and a lot in the mist.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 07:00 AM•Views: 131
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Iceland 0413 159
Iceland's biggest lake, and it has many branches and is truly very big. It is surrounded by glaciers and sits on the North American-European fault line, which causes all of Iceland's volcanoes.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 08:25 AM•Views: 136
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Iceland 0413 162
Part of the fault line. Here North America and Europe are pulling apart.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 08:35 AM•Views: 127
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Iceland 0413 166
More of the fault line.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 08:39 AM•Views: 115
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Iceland 0413 172
Long walk on a windy day up to the sheer cliff of the fault line. This was a meeting place in olden times (~900 AD) where an annual all island community meeting took place to discuss, vote on, and pass laws, and hold court and issue judgements. The cliff was the backdrop for the assembly. The platform is where us tourists gathered for the lecture by our guide. Note the flag pole. The flag blew off.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 08:44 AM•Views: 125
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Why I did not like Iceland.
Upload Date: Aug 7, 2013 10:31 AM•Views: 120
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Iceland 0413 175
The wetlands view back from the assembly area. I imagine it is all part of the lake as the water is not flowing very fast, if at all. The bus is the white speck at the far left center of the picture. It did drive around to pick us up at the other side.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 08:48 AM•Views: 117
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Iceland 0413 179
Sharon in her Muslim period.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 08:51 AM•Views: 116
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Iceland 0413 187
The meeting area right in the fault. Very impressive canyon, kind of one walled, but impressive.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 09:00 AM•Views: 117
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Iceland 0413 190
This is from the top.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 09:03 AM•Views: 117
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Iceland 0413 191
More of the lake. It has many branches or fingers, impossible to see it all in one view.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 09:04 AM•Views: 116
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Iceland 0413 196
April 9, 2013. April 9th! Cold, windy, no trees, dead brown grass. When the tour guide asked me if this was my first trip to Iceland, I told her, "No, it is my last." Beautiful water, sky, falls, interesting geology, but too much like Wyoming in early March.
Capture Date: Apr 9, 2013 09:07 AM•Views: 118
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Iceland 0413 200
Typical house in Reykjavik. I think some may have been rebuilt with old stone foundation and corrugated steel over concrete walls. At any rate the preferred construction mode is to build a stone foundation, then pour a concrete shell and sheath it with steel. They probably have a set of forms that they use over and over, building a house in a modular fashion, this wall from one set of forms another wall from another set. I cannot see them discarding the forms if they are wood, or if they are steel. Guides could not enlighten me, and we saw no construction in progress. a lot like US in 2010-11. This was 4/10/13.
Capture Date: Apr 10, 2013 07:18 AM•Views: 116
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