Live feed from Iceland volcano

[TyneTeas]

Is quite interesting and hypnotic to watch the slow spread

www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/20/live-feed-from-iceland-volcano

No, it's not us!

I'm not a photographer at all and I only had my phone, so my pictures aren't impressive compared to what you've already seen.

But it was so incredible, the most awe-inspiring thing I've ever seen in my life. It was snowing for a lot of the time, but we could still see the volcano well. The noise is something else, when it spurts lava and it crashes down. It sounds a bit like waves crashing on rocks. You can feel the heat from a long way off, like standing near a big bonfire. We completely lost track of time there, we were just staring at it for so long. We could hardly believe it was actually real and just there.

We parked and started walking at 5 pm, got back to the car at 9 pm by which time it was fully dark. Then it took ages to get through the one-way bit of the road with snow ploughs trying to get through the other way and a few people with jeeps who had been a bit over-ambitious with their off-road parking and needed to be pulled back onto the road. Finally got home at 11 pm and I was bloody knackered. Easily one of the best experiences of my life, though.

Classic ice and fire cliche and busy trail.

Those pictures are great, all the people look like little penguins!
I like the volcano picture, it's more real than what we've seen on the webcam.

The webcam seems to have been moved closer to the volcano now, or maybe that's my imagination.

Oh wow Puffin I am so jealous!

I've just shown DH this. He's perched on the edge of his seat now and keeps shouting "come quick, it's doing it again!"

Like a cat watching a bird table

Mumsnet really, really needs a like button! I'm really impressed that @PuffinShop went to the volcano and took great photos.

This is the best lockdown TV in 2021.

@en0la

Those pictures are great, all the people look like little penguins! I like the volcano picture, it's more real than what we've seen on the webcam.

The webcam seems to have been moved closer to the volcano now, or maybe that's my imagination.

Somehow, and dont ask me how, I am able to get pictures from several angles. I move my mouse somewhere near the bottom, and different angles appear, including one from very near the summit.

@TheLongRider

Mumsnet really, really needs a like button! I'm really impressed that *@PuffinShop* went to the volcano and took great photos.

This is the best lockdown TV in 2021.

Me too @PuffinShop. Thank you for your birds eye view so to speak.

Wow Puffin, what an amazing experience, I’m very jealous!

That is amazing @PuffinShop !!

That's awesome puffin!

This is the best lockdown TV in 2021.

Agreed.

Thank you Puffinshop.

www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/24/lava-puddles-quick-to-form

Did you see the lava puddles video? Makes me feel a bit funny when I think of people that have been seen walking over the fresh lava (e.g. to rescue a drone) considering this could happen without warning!

That's terrifying and fascinating in equal measure, thanks for sharing it.

It's changed so much day on day.

Currently looks quite like the lonely Pixar volcano

Have you seen the Aurora photo ?

Yes that was fab!

Wow it's very very bright tonight, looks amazing.

So fiery tonight! Are all the twinkly lights people with torches?

That's not people walking around it with their mobile phone torches on is it?

Yes, people looking at it

It seems more active tonight than earlier. Hard to tell if it is just that is stands out more in the dark though.

Wow! Very dramatic this evening. It looks like half of Reykjavik’s population is on the fells behind it tonight, looking at all those dots of light.

Literally thousands of people are visiting every day that access is permitted - almost 5 thousand the day I went. SAR have set up two marked trails now, giving people options for when the wind changes direction. They are all volunteers and they are also there helping anyone who gets into trouble, monitoring gas levels, controlling access, directing traffic. Absolute heroes.

I'm already trying to organise to go back again. Nothing else to bloody do with the latest COVID restrictions just in time to ruin Easter, so it's brilliant to have the volcano as something positive.