West Fjords, Iceland Part II

I'm back with more photos from Iceland after having a month off from sharing photos from Iceland. After a quiet day checking out Dynjandi Waterfall, we spent the next day exploring more of the West Fjords. The highlights from the day were the site of the old whaling ship Gardar BA 64, Látrabjarg, Rauðisandur (Red sand beach) and Breiðavík Church (The red-roofed church).

Along our drive, we came across a closed museum with old ruined cards and planes. It was a pretty neat place. I took the opportunity to photograph some of these abandoned cars and planes.

This was a cool modern church which we came across driving past a town in the West Fjords. We stopped to walk around it. It looks like a modern take on traditional Lutheran Churches in Iceland. I loved the yellow pop of colour agaisnt the vibrant green grass. The white mist and low hanging cloud really added to the atmosphere of the shot.

We took a short picnic lunch break near the iconic red-roof Breiðavík Church. Another Lutheran Church that is scattered all around Iceland. The day was cold and windy, so it was hard to keep out food on the table. It was so peaceful though, having lunch while taking in the eerie and quiet Icelandic landscape.

Látrabjarg is famous for Icelandic puffins in the summer. Since we were there during autumn there were no puffins in sight. However the sea side cliffs were no less magnificent, we just had to be careful not to step through a puffin hole and the edges were fairly fragile, it's a a long if we fell over!

The ruined Garðar BA 64 is the oldest steel ship in Iceland and has been a bit of a draw card in the West Fjord for travellers. It was used as a whaling ship the same year the Titanic met it's final fate. If you're keen to check it out when travelling to Iceland, it's easily accessible along the road side.

By the time we headed towards Rauðisandur, the famous red sand beach), it was late in the afternoon. We decided to stop half way down the windy road to admire the unique red sand beach and just take in the landscape (and do some photography). Looking at these photos again has taken me to back to 1 year ago when I was travelling around Iceland. What an experience that was, it truly was a landscape photographer's paradise.

When we drove all the way down to the ground level of red sand beach, we went past this quaint farm house and black church. This was really the classic Icelandic scenery. The farm house, hay, misty sky and low hanging clouds.

Just when we thought the day couldn't get better, we managed to catch more northern lights in the sky in the backyard of the hotel we were staying at for the night. As we were in a town centre with a fair amount of light pollution, it wasn't the brightest northern lights, but it was still just as captivating. We stood out in the freezing cold for around 30 minutes admiring the dancing lights.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Janice