There's always more to discover in Iceland

Last week I took another trip, though this one was a 2 day trip to Vestmannæyar (The Westman Islands) to have an explore of what is reputed to be a beautiful Archipelago. I only visited the main (and only inhabited) island named Heimaey.
Even on the ferry trip over to the island the adventure began, I spotted a Minke Whale in the distance. I pointed this out to nearby passengers and ended up guiding the ferry trip, once a guide a guide!
The island itself is incredible, there are two volcanoes of which one is just 40 years old after the first had a huge eruption which created a second huge crater. It is also the largest Atlantic Puffin colony in Iceland with around 1.2 million breeding puffins coming to the island every summer.
So if you want to be literally surrounded by puffins this is the place to be! It is also a photographers paradise as you will see now!

The volcano hovers above the town, both intimidating and beautiful.

The harbour area is surrounded by mountains and lava fields.

As I walked through the new lava fields there was a pair of Golden Plovers that put on a bit of a show. Here is the male.

You can see how new these lava fields are, still so bright red!

The female Golden Plover posing in a small field.

Have you ever been attacked by an Oystercatcher? Because this was a very angry one that was pretty terrifying.

Though it did give me some great picture opportunities

Yay for more Icelandic Horses!

The highlight was of course the many many puffins that were on the island!

My favourite picture that I took, this one goes into my hall of highlights!

This particular puffin was excellent, I got extremely close to this one without it caring about my presence.

That moment when you think you recognise someone but aren't sure, I'll just have a stealthy look...

I'm actually back in the UK right now but I'll be back in Iceland on the 17th, then just 6-7 more weeks left....

Thanks for reading!