The first puffins arrives soon :) This photo is from Dyrhólaey, a puffin colony close to Vík...

Islande - Aux pieds des volcans

http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-nous-autres-islande-aux-pieds-des-volcans

Today is a beautiful day in Vík. This photo is from last week when the weather was diffrent. It always possible to capture the beauty in Vík... no matter how the weather is :)

Photographer: Jónas Erlendsson

You might have noticed this lighthouse in Dyrhólaey. The very first lighthouse in Dyrhólaey was built in 1910. The present one was built in 1927 and was quite a large construction. The building materials were pulled up onto the headland along a cable from the shore.

Capelin fishing outside Vík last Saturday

Photographer: Jónas Erlendsson

Last Saturday was a beautiful day here in Vík!

Bon Iver won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. They selected Vík and Iceland's glacial landscapes to visually showcase their second single, titled "Holocene."

Fire Sunset - Reynisdrangar at Vík, Iceland (by orvaratli)

Reynisdrangar are giant pillars of rock, as high as 66 meters, that rise out of the sea to the south of Reynisfjall and are well visible from Vík. Like many similar phenomena the pillars are explained in folklore as the remains of giants who were caught by the sun at dawn and turned to stone.

The cover of Icelandic Times is from Katla Geopark! ...take a look inside too at page 48!

Iceland - Vik: Distant Fingers by John & Tina Reid on Flickr.

Arnardrangur in Mýrdalssandur, south Iceland by skarpi - www.skarpi.is on Flickr.

The Cavebirds in the Gentle Evening by Stuck in Customs on Flickr.

Orgues basaltiques - Columnar basalt, Vik, Iceland by pas le matin on Flickr.

Sólstafir is an Icelandic psychedelic metal band, formed in 1995. Sólstafir's newest video for the song, "Fjara", off Sólstafir's chart-topping double album, "Svartir Sandar" og "Black sand" in English translation. The band used the amazing landscape around Vík to make this mystical video.

The groyne next to Víkurá River was built in the year 2011 to prevent further erosion of the Vík beach. After the volcano eruption in Katla 1918 the coastline by Vík accreted about 500 to 600 m, until 1971. From then the coastline has erode about 350-450 m and is today about the same as it was prior the eruption. A part of the town is close to the today’s coastline and a solution for the erosion is needed.

February 2012 / Photographer: Jónas Erlendsson

The stunning view today from Vík beach

February 2012 / Photographer: Jónas Erlendsson

Some parts of the new series of Game of Thrones were taken around Vík in December!