At last I've got around to re-uploading the first batch of honeymoon pics (scanned slides, so the quality's not brilliant). They used to be available via various online hosts but now I've brought them back in-house.
I guess that a fair few of you readers have seen the pics before, but if you're a newbie here, or just fancy having another look, just click on any of the following pics to get started.
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- 001 – The Forth Rail Bridge
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- 002 – The Forth Road Bridge
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- 003 – Drelnes
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- 004 – Chris on the deck of the Smyril
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- 005 – Snap!
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- 006 – Hvalvík and Streymnes
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- 007 – Oyri
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- 008 – Kollafjørður
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- 009 – Tórshavn harbour
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- 010 – Tinganes (Houses of Parliament), Tórshavn
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- 011 – View over to Tórshavn harbour
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- 012 – Kaldbaksfjørður from Mjørkadalur NATO (Danish) base
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- 013 – Salmon farming, Oyndarfjørður Hostel
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- 014 – Salmon farming, Oyndarfjørður Hostel
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- 015 – Oyndarfjørður Hostel
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- 016 – Oyndarfjørður
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- 017 – Tórshavn from the Norröna
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- 018 – Chris on the rear deck of the Norröna
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- 019 – Nólsoy
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- 020 – Nes
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- 021 – Heading North, between the islands
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- 022 – Kunoy
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- 023 – View from the front of the Norröna – Kunoy (R) & Kalsoy (L)
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- 024 – Kunoy
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- 025 – Kunoy
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- 026 – Looking back at Kunoy, Borðoy and Viðoy, last view of The Faeroes
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- 027 – Sunset from the Egilsstaðir campsite, first night in Iceland
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- 028 – Sportrak and Supernova, Egilsstaðir campsite
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- 029 – Jökulsárbrú
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- 030 – Jökulsá á Brú
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- 031 – Heading West on Road 1
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- 032 – Photo-stop after the Road 923 junction
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- 033 – Tracks leading off left to nowhere, really
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- 034 – Chris loses at Hide and Seek again
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- 035 – The Geitasandur Plain from the Möðrudalsfjallgarður Eystri range
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- 036 – The view southwards from the Möðrudalsfjallgarður range
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- 037 – Road 1 through the Möðrudalsfjallgarður Vestri range
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- 038 – Heading South on Road F98
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- 039 – It’s not such a barren place if you stop to look
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- 040 – No idea what these are called, but they thrive in the ash
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- 041 – Chris checking out the lava formations, Grjót, F98
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- 042 – Here, the F98 passes through formations that have been covered with pumice
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- 043 – Looking back towards Herðubreið after crossing the Kreppa bridge
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- 044 – The Kreppa, looking downstream
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- 045 – The Kreppa, looking upstream
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- 046 – The view through the windscreen
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- 047 – Chris driving through the Krepputunga
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- 048 – Yes, that is the road, looking back towards Fagradalsfjall
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- 049 – Chris standing on the hard shoulder
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- 050 – A bit closer to Kverkfjöll
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- 051 – Distant peaks in the interior
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- 052 – Chris testing the depth of yet another river that we had to ford
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- 053 – Ash-fields near the Kverkfjöll campsite
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- 054 – The Kverkfjöll campsite at the end of Road F98
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- 055 – The Kverkfjöll Hut
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- 056 – The view from the tent just before 11pm, Kverkfjöll campsite
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- 057 – The walker’s track to the Kverkfjöll ice caves beneath Vatnajökull
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- 058 – Walkers on the track across the edge of the glacier
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- 059 – The sub-glacial river emerges from beneath the ice
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- 060 – Surface meltwater eroding the ice
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- 061 – Lunch on the snout moraine
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- 062 – The outwash channel
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- 063 – Natural ice sculpture
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- 064 – Chris up on the ice-cap
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- 065 – Run-off channel on the ice
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- 066 – The run-off disappears down into a crevasse
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- 067 – On Road F98, this bridge spans the Jökulsá á Fjöllum at Upptyppingar
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- 068 – The Jökulsá á Fjöllum from the bridge – fast, deep and cold
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- 069 – On the F98 approaching the Dreki Hut
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- 070 – The view from the Dreki campsite, Kollóttadyngja 1180m (L) and Herðubreið 1682m (R)
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- 071 – The Dreki campsite, with the Dreki Hut at the feet of the Dyngjufjöll massif. Chris calls this the Campsite from Hell
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- 072 – Looking up to the walls of the Dyngjufjöll from the Öskjuop on the way to the Askja crater
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- 073 – The Öskjuop – typical of a road bulldozed through the lava-fields
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- 074 – The view across the Vikraborgir, with Chris sitting on the edge of a cinder cone
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- 075 – The view the other way – the huge lava field inside the Askja caldera, with the walls on the horizon
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- 076 – Similar but further left
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- 077 – Low-res panorama (pics 075 and 076 stitched)
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- 078 – Chris looking over towards Herðubreið from the cinder cone – this is one of my favourites
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- 079 – Walkers on the rim of the Víti crater, the bigger lake is Öskjuvatn backed by Þorvaldsfell (1510m)
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- 080 – As previous, but with added swimmers!
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- 081 – Chris inside the Víti crater
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- 082 – Another view inside the Víti crater
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- 083 – Going for a dip in the Víti crater-lake
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- 084 – The ridge between Víti and Öskjuvatn
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- 085 – Looking across the Öskjuvatn
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- 086 – Chris standing near the memorial to Walther von Knebel and Max Rudloff
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- 087 – Impressive scenery, it’s just damned awkward to walk on it!
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- 088 – Fresh pahoehoe (rope-like) lava in the Öskjuop
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- 089 – More pahoehoe lava, with the other side of the Öskjuop in the distance
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- 090 – Even more pahoehoe lava, with interesting flow structures
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- 091 – Looking back towards the Dreki campsite and a sandstorm
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- 092 – Heading North on Road F88, Chris contemplates the fording of the Linðaá
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- 093 – Hmm… that’s a bit wider than we expected!
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- 094 – The Jökulsá á Fjöllum, looking upstream towards Upptyppingar
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- 095 – Cascades in the Grafarlandaá, with Herðubreið in the background
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- 096 – Fumaroles and steam vents, Hverarönd near Námafjall
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- 097 – Fumaroles and steam vents, Hverarönd near Námafjall
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- 098 – Fumaroles and steam vents, Hverarönd near Námafjall
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- 099 – How far across do you reckon this is?
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- 100 – You wouldn’t want to fall down there!
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- 101 – Chris having a rest on the slopes of Námafjall
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- 102 – The view from Námafjall
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- 103 – A solfatara
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- 104 – Another solfatara
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- 105 – Yet another solfatara
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- 106 – The Víti explosion crater near Krafla, Mývatn in the far background
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- 107 – Dried-up solfatara on the path around the Víti explosion crater
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- 108 – The landscape at Gjástykki in the Krafla caldera (this is where my bootsoles melted!)
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- 109 – A partially-collapsed lava-tube, Gjástykki
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- 110 – A big fumarole, Gjástykki
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- 111 – Looking West over a large area of active fumaroles and recent lava-flows in the Krafla caldera
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- 112 – Looking North from the same place
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- 113 – Sulphur crystals growing around a small hot vent
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- 114 – A big hot vent – the noise from it was immense
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- 115 – Strands of lava frozen as they were squeezed out through holes in the surrounding rock
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- 116 – Mývatn from the rim of the Hverfjall crater
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- 117 – The Hverfjall crater
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- 118 – Looking South from Hverfjall over the Grænavatnsbruni towards Herðubreið
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- 119 – Looking over the Dimmuborgir from the rim of the Hverfjall crater
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- 120 – Bizarre lava stacks on the shores of Mývatn
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- 121 – Dettifoss and the Jökulsá á Fjöllum
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- 122 – Looking downstream from Dettifoss
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- 123 – Looking upstream to Selfoss
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- 124 – Selfoss
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- 125 – Looking downstream towards Dettifoss
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- 126 – A precarious seat
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- 127 – Same seat, different pose
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- 128 – One of the biggest trees that we saw in Iceland
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- 129 – The Jökulsá á Fjöllum flowing down through Hólmatungur
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- 130 – Vígabergsfoss and the Jökulsá á Fjöllum
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- 131 – Chris at Hólmatungur
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- 132 – Walking around Hólmatungur
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- 133 – Impressive cooling structures on the eastern shore of the Jökulsá á Fjöllum
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- 134 – Chris at Hljóðaklettar (Echoing Rocks)
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- 135 – Hljóðaklettar again
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- 136 – Lava-cave at Hljóðaklettar – looking in
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- 137 – Looking out
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- 138 – The last of the slides
