Iceland-Land of Fire and Ice-Adventure-Reykjavik October 21, 2022
For our October Adventure this year we decided on ICELAND , the Land of Fire and Ice . It literally is the land of FIRE (Volcanoes-at least 57 of them) and ICE (at least 3 major glaciers). Unfortunately, we missed the effusive eruption of Fagradalsfjall volcano by a month. It's labeled effusive because the lava does not burst from the earth's crust in an explosion of ash and fire like Eyjafjallajökull did in 2010. Rather, the lava emerges from the volcanic fissure forming molten rivers of lava . This eruption was very near to Reykjavik allowing for easy viewing-locals and geologists labeled it a "tourist eruption". But, like I said this second eruption in 2022 had ended in September (dang!) before our tour began. The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (it literally means "the glacier of the island mountains") in 2010, put Iceland on the map when it's 71 day eruption caused the airports in Europe to cancel flights because the ash cloud wa...