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	HUSAVIK, THE WHALE CAPITAL OF ICELAND, GODDAFOSS, GEOTHERMAL AREA & LAKE MYVTAN We arrived into Husavik in North Iceland in Skjafandi Bay at 7:30 pm. Husavik means “Bay of Houses” and this town of over 2,000 people was settled before 874AD. The town has a wooden church, Husavikurkirja which was built in 1907 and overlooks a very picturesque harbor. Husavik is considered the best place to see whales since their operators have a 100% success rate in seeing whales. At 8 pm we went whale watching on a boat called Sylvia. That night we saw many whales who were surfacing and blowing water. We even saw one whale breeching.

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Photos from our whale watching cruise. It began at 8:15 pm and ended at 11:30 pm.

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Iceland is “Land of the Midnight Sun”. In July the sun goes down at midnight and comes up at
3:30 am.

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	The next morning we visited Godafoss waterfall which is on the Ring Road and is part of the Diamond Circle.. The waterfall was named Godafoss “Waterfall of the Gods” because when Iceland adopted Christianity, the man behind this decision, Porgeir Ljosvetningagodi, threw his old Norse idols into the waterfall. The waterfall is part of the Skalfandafljot River.


	We visited the landscape around the Peistareykir Geothermal Plant and saw the bubbling ponds.


	Lake Myvatan is in northern Iceland and was formed 2,300 years ago by an eruption. It is the largest lake in Iceland at 14.5 square miles. Below are lava formations in the lake.


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