The highlight of today was entering a massive ice cave in the Vatnajokulpjodgardur National Park (see, I told you those names were long and unpronounceable! 🙂 ).  Just a week ago, the interior river that carved the cave was frozen solid and crampons (spikes you put on your shoes to walk on ice) were needed. This week was a Big Thaw though, the river was flowing fast and the ice was melting fast enough to seem like it was raining inside.  Some of the images in here are my favorite from the trip, and after some additional post-processing will be put in our travel gallery and on 500px.

Next stop was our first look at the Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon.  This is an area where ice breaks off a local glacier, then floats out to sea.  As the tide comes in and out, the ice is shifted between the ocean beach (across the road) and the lagoon.  We only had a short time here for sunset photos.  Though the day had been cold and overcast, the sky cleared just enough to give some color to the sunset, making for some nice final images of the day.