You can get get an eyeful of nature just driving along the Ring Road, but there are destinations. You should really visit Jokulsarlon, the glacier lagoon. What isn't apparent from pictures is the sounds of the lagoon. There's a bit of a breeze rippling the water, but aside from that, the only sound is the sound of the icebergs bumping gently into each other, and then the occasional splash of a large chunk breaking off. The area is peaceful, but it's alive with slow, subtle movement.
There's also the Golden Circle, not to be confused with the Ring Road. It's a circuit that starts by Reykjavik and visits a bunch of interesting sites. Our first stop was at Geysir and Strokkur. Geysir is the original spouting spring that gave geysers their name. However, it was rendered inactive in the early 1900s because people kept throwing rocks into it to get it to erupt. Luckily its neighbor, Strokkur, still diligently erupts every 5 to 10 minutes.
I had my red filter on because I thought I had loaded my black and white film, but it turned out to be Ektar. Some of them survived conversion to B&W, but for the most part it wasn't very pretty.
Also on the Golden Circle tour were Gullfoss, which was depicted in the previous post, and Thingvellir park, which we had to skip because we ran out of sunlight.
For lack of a decent segue, here are some more rocks that I forgot to post from the previous post:
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