The legendary midnight sun is finally enjoyed!

The weather recently has been.... pretty awful. Its very easy to forget that it is supposed to be summer, I accept that it won't be warm and that doesn't bother me at all. But please let us have sunshine and less rain!
It has been almost permanently cloudy for the last few weeks and there has been a lot of rain to accompany it, as you may know in the summertime Iceland has very extended sunlight hours. This means the chance for good pictures of sunsets/sunrises is high, unfortunately most of the clear nights have been while I have been working and so I haven't been willing to stay up very late. But last night (I was working of course) there was a clear night and I had the pleasure of guiding a midnight sun tour, for starters it was a great tour anyway! There were two Minke Whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) that were very calm and were swimming around our boat for extended periods of time.
But the best part of the tour was entirely the sunset, with a clear blue sky we had a red sun that was slowly descending across the skyline. Every time you would look back up at the sky the view had changed. But there's only one picture I want to share, its my new background so you can already see it quite well. I've replaced one sunset picture with another!

I climbed up to the highest point of the boat, because safety is my highest priority to grab this shot. 

This was my first real look at the midnight sun and my first of these trips, something tells me I'll like them...

Thanks for reading!