Jökulsárlón is a glacial lagoon, where icebergs break from a glacier and hang around for a few months before making it to sea. Since it has a mix of salt- and freshwater (from the melting glacier) it does not freeze in winter. Except, apparently, when they temporarily shut down its outlet in order to freeze it for a James Bond film.
We took a trip in an amphibious boat that went around the lagoon for half an hour or so, and got to admire all the different shapes.
Bunch of tourists :)
That's ash from past volcanic eruptions, apparently
A bird pecking a mushroom
A left hand
Framing
Tilted mushroom
A narwhal chasing a pig
Zoidberg from Futurama, on the left
A glacial tongue
A nicely eroded mountain
A lot of the south coast is like this.. The melting glaciers erode everything in their paths
Close up of the glacier
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