Flying over Iceland was an artist’s dream come true.
The land had a barren beauty and running through it all was this incredible turquoise river. 
The land appears dull in comparison to this amazing river.
Overhead the sky turned cloudy and the river was darker with more blue.
As the river neared the ocean the colour became darker and inkier.
This is the colour of the ocean where it meets that turquoise river. This shot is almost immediately after the last shot but the sun had come full out again changing the colours radically – the dark blue bay above looks almost red here.
From the teal ocean looking over the green-gold land..
From the land with a volcanic cone looking over to the teal ocean.
These these aerials were all taken from our regular Icelandair flight that flew over Iceland on its way to Copenhagen. I also did a post on the amazing landforms in Iceland taken on the same flight. I have Googled the ‘turquoise river in Iceland’ trying to find its name and there are a couple of candidates: the Kolgrima River delta or the Pjorsa River. Many of the on-line photos of this river have been taken with drones or from a small chartered plane and are truly astounding.
More of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Teal, Aqua, Seafoam or Turquoise.
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Beatiful photos! Thank you for sharing!
Your pictures are stunning and quite different from what we saw in Iceland. I never heard of this river and I haven’t read about it. Thanks for sharing!
I have no idea what the name of it was but it was large and certainly stood out. I’m wondering if it looks different depending on the time of year and the amount of run-off/glacial till in it.
Surreal!
All of Iceland appeared surreal from the air – now I’m wondering if it is as surreal from the ground…
Stunningly beautiful and very special! I have flown over Iceland several times – never seen or heard of this river.
I’m thinking I was very lucky to have seen it. And the photos from my little point and shoot don’t really do the river justice – you should see the photos of it from professional photographers!
I am very happy with yours!
Thank you!
Fascinating. So blue. I’m doing the same flights soon. Any not to be missed places in Copenhagen that aren’t on the normal list of tourist attractions? Happy weekend.
We found the best bits of Copenhagen were to be found just walking around a couple of areas. One was the counter-culture district of Christiana. The other was the colourful buildings along the canal area of Nyhavn. From here we turned down a street going towards the Design Museum, filled with Danish design furniture stores – not something I would normally bother with but its different in Denmark. It was easy to find fabulous fish and seafood lunches in Copenhagen but the evening meals tended heavily towards a choice between pizza and shawarma. For breakfast the pastry vanilla cream ‘spandauer’ was to die for – I even found a bakery in the airport for my final fix – they don’t seem to exist anywhere at home.
I will have to look for the spandauer. Love a good pastry especially stuffed with cream! Thanks so much for the advice. I will be staying near Nyhavn.
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The river looks stunning! What a sight to see
Amazing unbelievably beautiful color!!!
Yes, the colour was completely unreal!
My life is so dull. I wish I would be able to travel 🧳 more and see the world 🌎!!
Wonderful, thank you for sharing.