A stop at the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon is part of every Iceland trip, but it’s getting ever trickier to photograph or write anything new here. After the stormy days before our arrival, fewer ice floes were drifting in the lake’s outflow than in previous years.
A few pictures all the same
Of course a few pictures were taken all the same. The icebergs break off the Breiðamerkurjökull, a tongue of the Vatnajökull; the lagoon only began to form in the 1930s as the glacier retreated and, at up to 284 metres, is now the deepest lake in Iceland.
Snowy mountains above the shore at Jökulsárlón – every Iceland trip stops here, even in winter.The ice sheet of the lagoon under a deep-blue sky.Drifting ice on Jökulsárlón, fewer floes in the outlet than before.Ice floes in front of Breiðamerkurjökull, which calves into the lagoon here.A frozen lagoon, icebergs under a blue sky.Ice floes lie packed together on Jökulsárlón.A view through between two blocks of ice onto the lagoon.Grooves in the face of a block of ice, up close.The block of ice is reflected on the dark lagoon.A piece of ice trimmed as if with fur: hoarfrost on the edge, dark water beneath.Broken floes under a grey sky at Jökulsárlón.Icebergs on the lagoon, the background dissolving in pale haze.Icebergs on Jökulsárlón, a snow-covered mountain behind.Dark clouds above the expanse of ice, the glacier on the horizon.
