Snow, snow and more snow

A MODIS satellite picture of Iceland

Over the last few days we have been in the middle of a storm. Strong winds have kept us home, working on our computers instead of out there studying the whales. But today brought a whole new element to this incredible show of nature: snow, and lots of it! If this was what you could see of Iceland yesterday from space, today all we could see was a few meters out of the front door, if we were lucky.

In Grundarfjordur we are staying in a 2-storey house made up of two separate apartments, one on each floor, connected by an outside staircase. It sounds lovely and spacious, except when you can't find the steps on the staircase because it all just looks like a mountain of snow! Hopefully the weather will improve over the next few days and we can be out in the water again. Still, it's amazing to witness the power of the weather in this part of the world.