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Golden hour exploring Húsavík, Iceland

fisherman at work at husavik

After a big day of three waterfalls and enjoying autumn colours at Asbyrgi Canyon, we drove onwards to the next town. Husavik is the famous whale-watching capital of Iceland. Since it was quite late in the afternoon, we didn’t manage to do any whale-watching. Instead we walked around the quiet little town and enjoying the golden hour sunlight. These are some of my favourite photos from our walk around town. The golden hour light was spectacular.

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Ásbyrgi Canyon, Iceland

Ásbyrgi Canyon

After hitting the three waterfalls, we had some time left over to visit Ásbyrgi Canyon in the afternoon. Ásbyrgi is a very large horseshoe-shaped canyon. There are several hiking rials in the canyon. Given we didn’t have a heap of time, we opted for one of the shorter loops. Because we were in the canyon, there were deep shadows and bright highlights in the frame. To get a well exposed shot, I ended up taking 3 different exposures and blending it together in Aurora HDR.

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Selfoss and Hafragilsfoss, Iceland

Selfoss

From Dettifoss there were also two nearby waterfalls we visited called Hafragilsfoss and Selfoss. To access Selfoss, you’re walk a relatively short distance from Dettifoss. The path is straight forward enough, but it can be rocky. I quite liked Selfoss, in particular the short curtains of waterfalls.

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On the road to Dettifoss, Iceland

After breakfast, we left Seyðisfjörður and made the drive to Dettifoss. Dettifoss is famous for being the most poweful waterfall in Europe. The greyish white falls doesn’t make it a very pretty waterfall, however up close you can feel and hear the thundering noise of the falls. The drive to the falls contained sections of gravel roads which “normal” cars could go on. The drive itself wasn’t particularly green and scenic though. Once you get to the falls, there are two side to view the falls. Since we made the drive there we decided to visit both East and West side.

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Quaint village of Seyðisfjörður, East Fjord Iceland

Seyoisfjorour

Back to Iceland stories. Seyðisfjörður is a small village of around 600 inhabitants in the east fjords of Iceland. It was long drive from Black Diamond Beach all the way to Seyðisfjörður. By the time we got to Seyðisfjörður it was night fall and the drive to the village was dark and windy. However it was one of villages that I unexpected really liked. It was also one of our memorable stops because it was the first night we had a glimpse of the Northern Lights! After a quick dinner, we stood out in the freezing cold hoping the cloud would clear up for us to see the Northern Lights. However luck was not on our side that night.

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