Welshot Do Iceland Again – 2015 – Day 2

Well, after day 1 (a very long day!!) we started off at 9:30am. The sun had already risen when we set off, so no sun rise pictures today. To be honest we were glad of the sleep in after the previous night (aurora frenzy!!)

First stop was a waterfall / glacier river we stopped off at last year, Uriddafoss.

Urridafoss

We were actually really surprised that the area had been made health and safety friendly, we couldn't get down to the central island this time. Kris was made up though, the Icelandic authorities had used one of his images from last year to publicise the area. A sign had been erected, with his image and his name for all the world to see!!

Next stop was near Seljalandsfoss (one of the most iconic waterfalls). We didn't stay here today (well not at this time), we swapped vehicles and left all of our worldly goods behind us (in the trailer) and swapped to a proper off road vehicle. No mardy 4x4 for us, this was a proper ford big begger that stopped at nothing. Our destination was a glacier near Þórsmörk (Gigjokull). Getting there was more fun than a ride at Alton Towers. Aron, drove us quite capably across the lava field / Ice field / frozen rivers / non frozen rivers. It was scary at times but so much fun.

Our destination was the Gigjokull glacier. We all had some fun river hopping to get to it, but we all did it and in true Welshot spirit we helped all to get there.

Gigjokull Glacier

The weather wasn't that great and we were stuck to shoot things so Joan very graciously agreed to model for us, we were going to do off camera flash - but I forgot the flashes!!

Joan agrees to model

We did a bit more off roading ...

Off reading

Lunch was at the Volcano Huts, around the Þórsmörk area.

Our transportation

We then made our way back to the off road vehicle pick up point near Seljalandsfoss. We walked the full wall of waterfalls.

Seljalandsfoss area

Then it was back to the hotel. The weather today, to be fair, was very poor. We got hit with everything, hence the lack of images. On the way to the hotel, myself and Eirian decided to experiment with Icelandic Vodka and skittles!! The result...........

Hmmmmm!