Although we had missed the 2 months of midnight sun where it never got darker than in my first image below, we still had some long days before the gloom would set in about midnight.
It was very strange being able to see out at all times. We often watched the Arctic Foxes moving about the houses in search of food. They looked like little black ghosts flitting in and out of the bushes. These animals are remarkable: their coats are totally dark, almost black in summer, and turn snow white to camouflage them in the snow during wintertime.
Even though the sun would dip below the horizon with the earth's rotation, I could still track its whereabouts from the brighter patch in the sky as the earth revolved around to start another day.
Over the 8 days in which we were in Hesteyri, we saw many different moods of the Hesteyrarfjörður depending on the weather and time of day.
The purple oval marks the area of the HesteyrarfjörðurI took lots of images of the fjörd and surrounding area - some of which I'll share with you in this post.
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Taken at about 6pm when the light would get very vivid when there was no cloud cover
At 11pm one night, fog started to drape itself over the neighbouring mountains. It didn't get further down than this as the light breeze blew it back from where it came.
We didn't have a midnight sun, but we did have a midnight sunset!
The landscape looked this gloomy all through the night. It was still possible to see quite some distance.
Looking towards the end of the fjörd at about 5pm on a brilliant day
Looking towards the mouth of the Jökulfirdir into the main fjðrd - the Isafjarðardjúp
The fjðrd continued around the corner of the left promontory
Taken from the Hesteyri jetty
Low tide revealed brown seaweed and kelp
The threat of rain
It also rained in the Isafjarðardjúp
I got a little wet from the rain while taking this, but it didn't fall for long
A more cloudy day made for a more dramatic, somber image
Everything looked happier when the sun shone throughI never tired of looking at the scenery - although I did long for some of the light quality that is found around sunset and sunrise at other times of the year. I'll have to go back to Iceland in another season, I guess!
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