I came back to Iceland yesterday with a team from the BGS Iceland project. We flew from Glasgow to Keflavik, where Jez met us with the two BGS trucks, and drove straight to Svinafell. The sea was blue and the sun was setting behind the ice caps and there was still a bit of snow on the cliffs; the mossy lava fields looked just as alien and the horses on the grassy plains just as beautiful - it really is a fantastic country. Except maybe for the food at the truck stops. I spent a month in Svinafell last summer, drilling and testing boreholes on the sandur. It felt brilliant to arrive back here last night, seeing the glaciers get bigger and bigger as we drove across the desolate grey Skeidurur sandur. Everything's unpacked now and it's back to work at Virkisjokull this morning!
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| Sun setting over Myrdallsjokull |
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