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Iceland Waterfalls

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I wanted to show you some pictures of the three Iceland waterfalls I visited. The first, Gulfoss which lies northeast of Reykjavik towards the Langjokull glacier. It is a very impressive waterfall and has two tiers, although we could not get to see the lower tier clearly. It was a cold day when we went there and the wind was so high we had to cling to the fence surrounding the waterfall to stay still.  Using a tripod would have been impossible. The way round the fall is duckboarded but it was extremely slippery because of ice and some of the paths had been closed off. In spite of the dull sky the water was still wonderfully blue and seeing it in winter was a great treat because of the ice build up. The following day we went on a tour of the south shore of Iceland where we saw two waterfalls, both very different from Gullfoss. It was late in the day when we got to them, but the wind had died down and so the tripod came out. The first is Skogafoss, 62m high,