Iceland North

From Myvatn, we headed west.  I got this picture looking out over the lake as we left.   You can see an old volcana just behind the lake.

We travelled most of the day overland to the Goðafoss waterfall.  Supposedly the leader who agreed to have Iceland adopt Christianity discarded all his idols of the old Norse gods into the Goðafoss.  We arrived late enough in the day that after walking around the falls we decided to camp on the grounds beside the river.

This was the only night we had a clear view of the Northern Lights.  On other nights we had seen an occasional smudge of colour but not much more than I have seen in Canada in the past.  On this night, we had a short display of vivid and well-defined streaks of colour.  I was a bit surprised at how much the lights moved over time.  Unfortunately I lost an argument with our new camera and so did not get any pictures.

The next morning, we toured the falls again.  The lighting was a bit better on this second day.

From there we continued west and took some time out to hike around another set of volcano craters.   While walking the rim of one, we got this shot of the next one over.

We then continued on and spent the night in Sauðárkrókur, a town on the central north coast.