Geology (continued)
GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY TRIP TO ICELAND 2018
Day One We touched down at Keflavik airport just after midday, and made our way out into the snow and ice to pile onto our tour bus for the next four days. Having dropped bags at the hotel we enjoyed an evening stroll through the capital of Reykjavik to see one its most famous churches before heading down the harbour. We were met with a beautiful sunset over the water, with the sky painted in a variety of crystal clear pastel colours. What a breath taking start to the trip!
Day Two Day two started bright and early with a tour around the Geothermal Power Station, allowing students to see first-hand how Iceland maintains such wonderfully warm buildings despite freezing temperatures outside. Continuing with the geothermal theme we went to the town of Hveragerdi. We stopped into the town’s tourist information centre where students had a chance to step inside the earthquake simulator and gaze down into a large crack created during the last earthquake. From here we visited the Geothermal Centre and had a tour around several hot springs, hearing stories of how they shifted with the tectonic activity. Whilst we were exploring the area there was a basket of eggs lowered into one such spring, which allowed us to try geothermally boiled eggs with some geothermally baked lava bread after being out in the cold. Mr Taylor and Tiffany also took advantage of the opportunity to dip their feet into one of the cooler springs. We drove through the Eyjafjallajokull flood plain to our first waterfall of the trip – Seljalandsfoss. We gazed up at the 60m high waterfall, ankle deep in snow with more falling around us, and even got to see a wedding taking place! The highlight of many pupil’s trip will have been the glacier walk. Our guides patiently showed us how to strap on crampons, and
then how to do so again when we’d got it muddled up! They expertly led us in three groups over the ice, answering questions and telling us stories. This glacier was also the scene of a brutal snowball ambush as orchestrated by Mr Phillips… As if today hasn’t been spectacular enough we finished the day with a walk along Reynishverfi black sand beach. For geologists this was an exciting opportunity to see and touch some impressive columnar jointing, for others it provided some excellent Instagram shots as the sun turned the sky into more pastel colours contrasting with the white breaking waves and sparkling black sand.
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