Doug Jones
Doug Jones

Iceland

We traveled to Iceland for my sister-in-law’s wedding, congrats Ginny & McKenzie! I wanted to share a few photos from our time on the island.

Our rental car was a Chinese EV, a Hongqi compact suv. First time driving a Chinese built car!

A white electric car is parked and charging at a Komdu að hluta electric vehicle charging station marked with pink signage and outlines.

The landscapes around our hotel were amazing:

A building with a red roof is situated in the middle of a vast green field with distant mountains visible on the horizon.

A vast grassy plain dotted with white flowers stretches toward distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky.

We rode in buggies out to a glacier:

A partially melted glacier with visible blue ice and dark layers of volcanic ash is nestled between rocky cliffs under a cloudy sky.

A calm body of water is bordered by dark sandy shores with green hills and a cloudy sky in the background.

A nearby waterfall:

A small concrete structure covered in stickers and graffiti stands in front of a hillside with greenery and a waterfall cascading down the rocky cliff.

We spent our last night in Reykjavik, there was an interesting boat in the harbor. I looked it up and it’s powered entirely by renewable energy, turning seawater into hydrogen and using solar panels to charge its batteries:

Two boats are docked at a harbor on a foggy day, with one of them named Energy Observer.

Spur of the moment, we decided to take a whale-watching cruise at 9pm (it stays light until after midnight) and it was amazing!

We saw puffins: A rocky coastline covered with green vegetation and white flowers is home to numerous seabirds perched along the rocks and nestled in the foliage.

And humpback whales “bubble feeding”:

We felt incredibly lucky that we were able to see this!

Iceland is an amazing place and we had a great time.

From here, we traveled to Norway to visit Oslo and Bergen, where I’m currently posting from somewhere on the coast just north of Bergen. In my next post, I’ll have some photos from our time in Norway.