Ethereal light from the sun as it drops to the horizon around midnight. Taken in late June, looking north across mudflats and out to sea at Breiðavik in the far north-west of Iceland
Looking west across Breiðavik - the hamlet is at the left
At the top corner of the fingers which point out to sea in north west Iceland, some 300 kilometres from Greenland, is the hamlet of Breiðavik with its guest house and farm. From there to the lighthouse at the tip of the country is a short bus ride and the return can be made in a circle by foot. The word means 'wide bay' which at two and a half kilometres is just what it is. The letter ð is pronounced as th in the. The wide sands are bookended by substantial cliffs, between these the ground slopes gently back from the sea, and away across to the
high cliffs
on the far side of the peninsular. Iceland is summarised by the peace, space and beauty found at midsummer here near the Arctic Circle.
Looking north-east along the coast, Breiðavik is between the second and third headlands
Above is the bay and hamlet of Örlygshafnarvegur...
So this is not a panorama, however, it...
... and above here is the bay and hamlet of of Breiðavik.
...does show the similarity of the two neighbouring bays
Here the guest house, farm and chapel of Breiðavik are seen as the sun begins to heat the mudflats
Three pictures of ruins of small barns, maybe houses, near the modern community
Looking east across Breiðavik
Breiðavik farm buildings, with capsized trailer
On the farmhouse a pied wagtail waits with food
Stones on the beach morph into works of art in the limpid light of an Icelandic summer sun. Below lying dormant, and to the right jumping into life when approached by the photographer
Rafts of eider just off shore
Evening work in the fields - evening extending for hours into dusk and the grey of night
The sun drops from the clouds, before dipping into the sea, where it moves eastwards below the horizon for some minutes, and then re-emerging as dawn
The sun near midnight at Breiðavik
Trailers...
In two weeks time,
urban Iceland - relatively speaking.
The next page
of the Mosaic Section is headed 'Sad-eyed lady...'
Or go to the contents of the Mosaic Section.
The last page had pictures from the northern border of Vietnam
A very different beach on Vietnam's coast
To the Scottish coast
