Quote Originally Posted by Oddern View Post
Fantastic pics Barb. Is geology your profession or hobby?
I'm a geology professor (PhD in Geology) in real life, actually.

What were you having for dinner in that beautiful setting?
Some noodly thing - hot and filling. The setting was definitely more spectacular than the dinner!

Seems I read someplace that Iceland was once quite forested, before the Northmen settled there and spent hundreds of years cutting down the trees for ships and houses. Is that right?
The best estimate is that the coastal areas were pretty well forested with smallish birch. Nothing like the "forest primeval". The interior has always been pretty desolate - desolate enough that the Apollo astronauts came here to train before the Moon missions.

The coastal regions, particularly in the south, are very lush and green, just no trees. Lots of sheep and horses and farms.