#vatnajökul

Glacial Lagoon by Fougerouse Arnaud
Via Flickr:
This photograph was taken at the glacial lagoon of Jökulsárlón in southern Iceland. The biggest glacier of Iceland, named Vatnajökull, began to retreat due to the rising temperatures during early 1900s, the melting and the retreat created a lagoon somewhere around 1940. Nowadays the lagoon is still growing and big icebergs are continuously falling from the tongue of the glacier. The lagoon is pretty close to the sea, and at high tides, seawater flows into the lagoon, melting the iceberg who are going to derive into the sea at low tides. You can found dozens of icebergs, from small to big scattered around the closest dark sand beach, left here to melt. The view is very astonishing, but unfortunately, I went there three times during my trip and every time it was pouring rain… I still managed to get some shot, hidden under my poncho. Here is the result.