Jökulsárlón Iceberg Lagoon

  Jökulsárlón is a large glacial lake or a lagoon in southeast Iceland. It is one of Iceland's popular tourist attractions, and not without reason. The lagoon is one of a handful of places where you can get near a glacier without entering the wilderness or the Icelandic highland. It is easily accessible located right by the Ring Road.  Lón means a lagoon and Jökulsárlón is usually full of icebergs breaking away from the large glacier tongue Breiðarmerkurjökull, which is part of the glacier Vatnajökull, the largest ice cap in Europe.

This lagoon is very near the sea and was full of free floating gloriously blue, glacial icebergs.  It was also full of fish, sea gulls and seals.  It was very beautiful to watch the bergs moving gracefully along. These pictures disquise the majesty of the scene because the movement of the water and the ice is enchanting.   Smears of volanic ash could be seen in layers within the ice from eruptions over the past years and the ice, white and blue are very beautiful.