Week 3 - Glaciers - Robbie Ficalora

In May of 2019, my fiancé and I traveled to Iceland with her family. On the trip we made our way to Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon.

Panorama of Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon

The Lagoon has been formed from the melting receding glacial ice from the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier. The originating glacier is from a much larger icecap of a continental glacier. As the glacier melts into the lake, it deposits icebergs as shown in the photo.

Jökulsárlón Black Sand Beach

An interesting note about the area is that as the lake flows out to meet the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, it carries smaller chunks of ice with it "around the corner" to a black sand beach also referred to as "Diamond Beach" due to the contrast of glinting ice on top of the silty volcanic sand.
This ice contains rocks from the glacier source of origin as can be seen by the smooth rocks that do not match that of the black sand.
Once our time was concluded at the beach, we hoped back in the bus of a van I was driving and head back to our Air BnB, all while looking at parts of the country side, "Does that look like a place in 'Game of Thrones'?"