An Icelandic Odyssey

Traversing Iceland's National Park, a timeless place, where daylight fills each passing hour and twilights ever brief. While volcanoes stand by sentinel, amidst dark lava fields. Amazing geysers so magnificent, vent angry clouds of steam. Our route wlnds through wild landscapes, laid down by ice and fire. Breathtaking scenes see lustrous skies, change colour constantly. To marvel as wild reindeer herds migrate, in seeking pastures new. We rest awhile to take respite beside a waterfall, avoiding midday's heat. And bathe in ice cool waters crystalline, refreshing tired feet. The time soon comes for us to climb to high plateaus,where vast glaciers with melting ice, cascade torrents down below. From this vantage point we sight, the coastal waters where we aim to spend the night. Eventually, we make our descent, crisscrossing mountain streams, and wend our way carefully, to stroll through pastures green. Wild ponies graze as we pass by, observing us with watchful eye. Unbroken and unbowed by man, a force of nature, likens them to this rugged land. At journey's end we reach the fjord, this tranquil scene gains our accord for camping wild. Waiting patiently until the midnight hour to take some photographs. All panoramic landscapes, and taking centre stage this star, still shining bright our sun. Waking early to the strident sounds of seabirds raucous calls. Our experience seems so surreal, without the break of dawn. Today our destination will end our brief sojourn. Eventfully we stand beside where continents divide, Eurasia and North America's tectonic plates collide. arctic midnight sun shows creations finest hour land of ice and fire 6/ 24/ 2018.