Good humor about the ticket prices and the lava at the BL. Thank you for the laugh! That was a simply beautiful shot of the boat in the fjord with the waves behind.
8 meter thick lava! Thank you, I hadn't realized ti was that much flowing through that area. The changes in ground level altitude around the old crater row and in the areas of the flows must be impressive.
It adds up pretty quick, even with low viscosity lava. There are some really good videos showing this during the Kilauea flank eruption that destroyed parts of Lelani Estates
Hey Gylfi, thank you for respectfully reporting on those who do great things but rarely get a mention. Your comments are very clear and professionally spoken, you really are a pleasure to listen to!
The berm workers are all hero's im sure you will agree as are all the workers who fight the forces of icelandic nature good to hear from you as always Gylfi best regards from the UK 🇬🇧 to Iceland 🇮🇸
Love the coverage of the ongoing eruptions and how it is changing the landscape around the Blue Lagoon and Iceland as a whole. Your dedication and precise info coverage is brilliant and very welcomed. Your daylight hours may be getting that much shorter, but your updating posts are still enlightening. Thank you so much for your hard work and many regards to you from the wonderful county of Wiltshire, BAYDON, UK 🫶😎
"... and we usually don't make roads on the new lava until it is 1 or 2 weeks old." 😂😂😂 Well, that was the most Icelandic thing I've heard that year. Maybe... 🔥💋🌊
In this insane world, your videos are a beacon of light. You Icelanders are dealing with huge problems, my country (UK) can't even fill in the potholes. Thank you for your usual informative and visually amazing video. And, as always, the laid back humour!
I joked in a previous video that they'll have to build a tunnel to the Blue Lagoon with all these layers of lava and roads piling up but with how much it's rising all around the berms I'm wondering if they'll even be able to keep up. Let's hope all these brave and hard working berm builders can manage to outlast the eruption. Thanks for the update!
@@JustIcelandic I always enjoy your videos, they are very informative, educational, funny, calming, and just enjoyable learning about your amazing country and the many issues (volcanic or not) that you deal with. Keep being awesome!
Another fascinating update, thank you. I had no idea the car park lava was so thick or that there wasn’t enough snow on the peninsula to give good lighting. It’s “greying” here too in the UK.
In hundreds of years archaeology students will dig in the area and unearth a giant pavement/lava/pavement/lava layer cake. They will wonder what the heck the stubborn people were thinking when trying to overcome mother nature...
Good morning dear Gylfi, you now have a considerable number of followers. The video has been online for 5 hours and already has 12,700 views. Thank you for entertaining us so well and making the lava river a beauty.
Iceland’s willingness to take on a seemingly insurmountable problem and overcome it through quick thinking, tenacity and sheer hard work is an inspiration to all.
Give it a few more months, Iceland's engineers will figure out how to drive steel piles through lava to make bridge foundations and drop precast spans on them so the blue lagoon doesn't have to close any longer than the time it takes for toxic gasses to clear. No more waiting for lava flows to become hard enough to support a road overlay and cool enough not to melt tires.
Iceland ...an island that won't allow nature to beat them. The speed you get ' things done ' is great. UK would have to ' talk' about it for six months . Best wishes to all involved.
Thanks for the update, Gylfi. The workers are doing a magnificent job of controlling the uncontrollable. Fighting “Mother Nature” is always an uphill battle. Great video.
Gigantic work, all hats off to everyone working to contain this and not to forget to you for continuing to speak and report on this thank you, we are many who have Iceland in our hearts.
I live on the Big Island of Hawaii where we deal with eruptions from Kilauea regularly. The last major eruption was in 2018 and that one took out hundreds of homes and covered a large area of the southeast portion of the island in lava. One of the biggest losses to locals was of the "hot ponds" area in lower Puna. It was basically a warm pool by the ocean's edge, frequented by many locals and tourists alike. When Pele's lava covered the hot ponds it was a huge loss for us, and to this day people mourn the loss and reminisce about all the good times spent there. In Hawaii, there can be no consideration for manmade interventions like they are doing in Iceland. Here, Hawaiians revere Pele and her lava is considered sacred, as is the aina (or land) that she creates. So to try to redirect or stem the tide of lava is considered sacrilege, and those who choose to live in areas vulnerable to Her eruptions know full well that they are taking a chance that they may lose in the end. Many who lost their homes and properties were decidedly stoic about it here, since they knew all along that ultimately it is Pele's land, not theirs. Having said that, I admire Icelanders efforts to redirect the lava to protect their natural and cultural resources. I kind of wish we could have made some kind of similar attempt to save Hot Ponds, and also Pohoiki, the only area accessible for fishermen to launch their boats, and a place beloved by locals to enjoy the beach and local park. There, Pele took out the boat launch, but gifted us with a huge, broad, new black sand beach. Nature taketh and giveth according to Her whims . . .
Icelanders protecting the power plant is a top priority. This cold island depends on the power plant for electricity and, more importantly, hot water , which heats all of the homes and other buildings. The Blue Lagoon is just a bonus for tourism revenue. In Iceland, taming the lava is a matter of human survival.
@@peachBloom Good points. Still, I wonder what hawaiians would do if Pele came for the main town on the island, Hilo, which also lies in the path of a different volcano, Mauna Loa. When the town was last threatened over 100 years ago, legend has it that one of the priests chanted prayers and made offerings to the volcano goddess, and the lava flow suddenly stopped just on the outskirts of the town. If it were to happen again and Hilo was threatened, would Hawaiians intervene practically, like Icelanders have? I have my doubts.
We get so used to the high quality of your photography (and your insights, and your wit), and then you throw in that closing shot and leave us dumfounded all over again! Thank you Gylfi, stay safe, stay warm.
Thank you Gylfi for the update I always enjoy your videos as I can trust you give very good informative information about the current situation. Oh and I'm really looking forward to seeing your documentary about what has happened over the past year of the volcanic system in regards to the blue lagoon and Grindavik and of course the changes to the land scape of Iceland. Thanks again.
Thanks for the update from the north of Iceland. Glad to hear that you will have a chance to travel south. I hope you get a little more sun in Grindavik.
Thank you yet again for your coverage. And so cool that, just while I watched, I saw the "likes" go up by nearly 100 on this latest video! Take care, stay safe, and please continue to keep us all informed.
The brigthness of the eruption may be an extra highlight at Christmas, but I wish no one suffers from this situation. Congratulations to the workers. Thanks, Gylfi. You're great!
Gylfi, I love your humor. Swimmsuits in the cooling water for the lava in your last video. And now the lava could not afford the ticket. 😂 You made my day.❤ Thank you for your great videos.
I'm glad you mentioned the drastic, irreversible change in the landscape around the BL. I visited Iceland's most famous critical infrastructure more than a decade ago, and was surprised to see in your videos how much it has been expanded. I arrived very early by bus direct from the airport, and the place was quite empty the entire time I was there. Since I was alone, I spent much of my sleep deprived soak looking beyond the low wall to the water on the other side, speckled with innumerable little islands of black lava, the mountains in the distance a beautiful dusty pink and tangerine in the pale light. At the time the pool and building was a fraction of the size they seem to be now - I don't imagine that you could enjoy the landscape at all anymore thanks to that sprawling complex, much less now that it is sunk behind 20m high lava barriers. I look forward to your next video documenting this hubris.
Remember this - Volcano(Atlantic rift) gives wonderful natural harbor Grindavik only 900 yrars ago. Once rift is active lava is natural thing. Interesting story was old lava leaks inside berms. I have wondered those pics inside berms. All good to Grindavik people.
Good morning Gylfi, Greetings again from the Netherlands. Today we have a storm with lots of rain passing my country. The weather will improve the coming days but the temperatures will go down to around 5-6°C. Great that the barriers held with the cooling of the lava. Reminds me of many decades ago when I saw Iceland battling lava the same way. You’ve got the power 💪🏽. May the force be with you the coming time. Stay safe.
True🎉. Love seeing such a honest channel growing. Wonderful quality - hot but well backed information - perfect for eye👁ear👂and❤, because you never leave without a Smile😀and good mood🤗
I think they should build a parkjnglot on the south side of the blue lagoon within the walls. And build an entry road on the east and west side of it near the slopes of mt Thorbjörn.
"We usually don't make roads on the new lava until it is one or two weeks old..." 🤣That is good going. The only hold back is a little warm lava. Awesome attitude. In good old South Africa, we can't fix pot holes from years ago...
When you showed the Blue Lagoon before the lava came it would have been impressive to see how it looks now ( side by side ). Gylfi your work is amazing.
❤we were in Akureyri this summer. We loved the botanical garden with the blue poppies from the Himalayas. The knitted decorations of the town were amazing. Thanks for you being you and all that you do❤
Oh, you're in the North? Looks so nice there :), yes, I have family in Norway and they get less hours of light than we do here in Canada, which is pretty short as it is, lol . Thanks for the coverage today.
Great work and best wishes to all involved from Australia. Here where I live it’s bushfires, and boy do we have a big fuel load for the upcoming summer. I pray for your success, take care
Good humor about the ticket prices and the lava at the BL. Thank you for the laugh! That was a simply beautiful shot of the boat in the fjord with the waves behind.
Yeah, I nearly snorted what I was drinking when hearing that sarcasm/joke. Confirms how I got to experience you Icelandic People😂
Thank you to all of those men and women working so hard to preserve the infrastructure for all.
Many thanks, appreciated...
hopefully, they are getting recognized monetarily in a way at least vaguely appropriate to their contribution!
8 meter thick lava! Thank you, I hadn't realized ti was that much flowing through that area. The changes in ground level altitude around the old crater row and in the areas of the flows must be impressive.
It adds up pretty quick, even with low viscosity lava. There are some really good videos showing this during the Kilauea flank eruption that destroyed parts of Lelani Estates
Safe trip in the morning. Thank you, Gylfi!
Many thanks 🙂
Hey Gylfi, thank you for respectfully reporting on those who do great things but rarely get a mention. Your comments are very clear and professionally spoken, you really are a pleasure to listen to!
The berm workers are all hero's im sure you will agree as are all the workers who fight the forces of icelandic nature good to hear from you as always Gylfi best regards from the UK 🇬🇧 to Iceland 🇮🇸
I DO agree with you !
Ditto ❤
Love the coverage of the ongoing eruptions and how it is changing the landscape around the Blue Lagoon and Iceland as a whole. Your dedication and precise info coverage is brilliant and very welcomed. Your daylight hours may be getting that much shorter, but your updating posts are still enlightening. Thank you so much for your hard work and many regards to you from the wonderful county of Wiltshire, BAYDON, UK 🫶😎
It seems to me that Icelandic people are the world's best experts at dealing with volcanos. Good luck, you've earned it. 🍀🍀
"... and we usually don't make roads on the new lava until it is 1 or 2 weeks old."
😂😂😂
Well, that was the most Icelandic thing I've heard that year. Maybe... 🔥💋🌊
In this insane world, your videos are a beacon of light. You Icelanders are dealing with huge problems, my country (UK) can't even fill in the potholes. Thank you for your usual informative and visually amazing video. And, as always, the laid back humour!
And remember the population of Iceland is tiny in comparison.
@peterjames424 Quite. UK around 67 million, Iceland around 400,000 thousand. I despair of my country.
I joked in a previous video that they'll have to build a tunnel to the Blue Lagoon with all these layers of lava and roads piling up but with how much it's rising all around the berms I'm wondering if they'll even be able to keep up. Let's hope all these brave and hard working berm builders can manage to outlast the eruption. Thanks for the update!
They are certainly giving it their best effort. Even between eruptions, its pretty common to see construction crews actively working on the berms
Spectacular footage as always -- thanks for showing us Iceland, geologically one of the most interesting places on earth
Glad you enjoyed it
I love a healthy dose of that good old Icelandic sarcasm. 😂 Together with incredibly beautiful scenery. 😊
The video around 6:08 is insane, how high they've had to build the berm coming off the hillside. As always, an amazing update! 😊
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
@@JustIcelandic I always enjoy your videos, they are very informative, educational, funny, calming, and just enjoyable learning about your amazing country and the many issues (volcanic or not) that you deal with. Keep being awesome!
Each eruption teaches the engineers more how to deal with the lava
Exactly...
Another fascinating update, thank you. I had no idea the car park lava was so thick or that there wasn’t enough snow on the peninsula to give good lighting. It’s “greying” here too in the UK.
"We build roads on fresh lava after 1-2 weeks." The most icelandic thing to say in the most icelandic calm manner.
Go Go gadget Gylfi !! Appreciate all your updates.
"We don't usually make roads over new lava until it's at least two weeks old."
Iceland in one sentence right there :)
Thank you for the update, Gylfi, and the humour. Iceland people are certainly resourceful, and pragmatic.
In hundreds of years archaeology students will dig in the area and unearth a giant pavement/lava/pavement/lava layer cake. They will wonder what the heck the stubborn people were thinking when trying to overcome mother nature...
Might take another 1,000 years. The Icelandic people are tough!
Knowing the stubbornness of the Icelanders, the top layer will be pavement 😂.
@@nienkewitmond7768 Yes, I fully expect that it will!!
You always find a hilarious viewpoint for every situation. Thanks Gylfi, for putting a smile on my face and filling my brain too. ❤
Only 80 km from the Arctic Circle huh... Wow, I didn't know you were that far up there.
Travel safely.
Peace and love.
☮️❤
Good morning dear Gylfi, you now have a considerable number of followers. The video has been online for 5 hours and already has 12,700 views.
Thank you for entertaining us so well and making the lava river a beauty.
Iceland’s willingness to take on a seemingly insurmountable problem and overcome it through quick thinking, tenacity and sheer hard work is an inspiration to all.
Lots of good news! Thanks 🙂
Welcome 🙂
Keep safe and warm buddy. 👍😉
8 FREAKING METERS??!!!!
Thats crazy 😮
Give it a few more months, Iceland's engineers will figure out how to drive steel piles through lava to make bridge foundations and drop precast spans on them so the blue lagoon doesn't have to close any longer than the time it takes for toxic gasses to clear. No more waiting for lava flows to become hard enough to support a road overlay and cool enough not to melt tires.
Thanks for the news and stay safe, Gylfi! 🌋☺️
Great joke about the price of admission to the Blue Lagoon. 😆
Thank you for your great reporting. Icelands battle against the lava reminds me of our continuos fight against water here in the Netherlands!
Iceland ...an island that won't allow nature to beat them. The speed you get ' things done ' is great. UK would have to ' talk' about it for six months . Best wishes to all involved.
Thanks for the update, Gylfi. The workers are doing a magnificent job of controlling the uncontrollable. Fighting “Mother Nature” is always an uphill battle. Great video.
Gigantic work, all hats off to everyone working to contain this and not to forget to you for continuing to speak and report on this thank you, we are many who have Iceland in our hearts.
Thank you add all the workers for doing a great job 👍🙏>>>💚
Thanks Gylfi, take care drivign South on treacherous roads. Hope you have good weather
Safe travels! ❤
Many thanks :)
Appreciate the update on the situation!
Always welcome :)
Terrific update as always, Gylfi! It's hard to imagine 8m of lava - that higher than my house!! 😱Have a safe journey to Grindavik.
Thanks, will do :)
If I had to choose an example of the perfect RUclips video, this would be it - concise, informative, beautifully filmed and narrated.
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Have an enjoyable (& safe) journey south. Hope you get some nice sunny weather in the short daylight hours !
Sending our love from Chicago to all of Iceland!
I live on the Big Island of Hawaii where we deal with eruptions from Kilauea regularly. The last major eruption was in 2018 and that one took out hundreds of homes and covered a large area of the southeast portion of the island in lava. One of the biggest losses to locals was of the "hot ponds" area in lower Puna. It was basically a warm pool by the ocean's edge, frequented by many locals and tourists alike. When Pele's lava covered the hot ponds it was a huge loss for us, and to this day people mourn the loss and reminisce about all the good times spent there. In Hawaii, there can be no consideration for manmade interventions like they are doing in Iceland. Here, Hawaiians revere Pele and her lava is considered sacred, as is the aina (or land) that she creates. So to try to redirect or stem the tide of lava is considered sacrilege, and those who choose to live in areas vulnerable to Her eruptions know full well that they are taking a chance that they may lose in the end. Many who lost their homes and properties were decidedly stoic about it here, since they knew all along that ultimately it is Pele's land, not theirs. Having said that, I admire Icelanders efforts to redirect the lava to protect their natural and cultural resources. I kind of wish we could have made some kind of similar attempt to save Hot Ponds, and also Pohoiki, the only area accessible for fishermen to launch their boats, and a place beloved by locals to enjoy the beach and local park. There, Pele took out the boat launch, but gifted us with a huge, broad, new black sand beach. Nature taketh and giveth according to Her whims . . .
Icelanders protecting the power plant is a top priority. This cold island depends on the power plant for electricity and, more importantly, hot water , which heats all of the homes and other buildings. The Blue Lagoon is just a bonus for tourism revenue. In Iceland, taming the lava is a matter of human survival.
@@peachBloom Good points. Still, I wonder what hawaiians would do if Pele came for the main town on the island, Hilo, which also lies in the path of a different volcano, Mauna Loa. When the town was last threatened over 100 years ago, legend has it that one of the priests chanted prayers and made offerings to the volcano goddess, and the lava flow suddenly stopped just on the outskirts of the town. If it were to happen again and Hilo was threatened, would Hawaiians intervene practically, like Icelanders have? I have my doubts.
Thank you for this update,beautiful snowy town view,magical landscape ,wishing you happy and safe travels !
We get so used to the high quality of your photography (and your insights, and your wit), and then you throw in that closing shot and leave us dumfounded all over again! Thank you Gylfi, stay safe, stay warm.
Thank you Gylfi for the update I always enjoy your videos as I can trust you give very good informative information about the current situation.
Oh and I'm really looking forward to seeing your documentary about what has happened over the past year of the volcanic system in regards to the blue lagoon and Grindavik and of course the changes to the land scape of Iceland.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the update from the north of Iceland. Glad to hear that you will have a chance to travel south. I hope you get a little more sun in Grindavik.
My regards and respect to the workers. Amazing job and skills. Stay safe!
Thanks for reminding us that the crews have to fortify the base of each berm before increasing the height.
Great work Gylfi! 👍
Thank you yet again for your coverage. And so cool that, just while I watched, I saw the "likes" go up by nearly 100 on this latest video! Take care, stay safe, and please continue to keep us all informed.
Thank to all the workers and to you Gilfy. Regards from the freezing N. Ireland
They are going to have to rename it the Blue Lagoon Valley soon. But in Icelandic so no one else can pronounce it.
The brigthness of the eruption may be an extra highlight at Christmas, but I wish no one suffers from this situation. Congratulations to the workers. Thanks, Gylfi. You're great!
Thank you! You always give additional information on what may or will happen in the future. I always look forward to your reports! 😃
Gylfi, I love your humor. Swimmsuits in the cooling water for the lava in your last video. And now the lava could not afford the ticket. 😂 You made my day.❤ Thank you for your great videos.
Great information. Thanks.
Thanks Gylfi.You are the best👍
I'm glad you mentioned the drastic, irreversible change in the landscape around the BL. I visited Iceland's most famous critical infrastructure more than a decade ago, and was surprised to see in your videos how much it has been expanded. I arrived very early by bus direct from the airport, and the place was quite empty the entire time I was there. Since I was alone, I spent much of my sleep deprived soak looking beyond the low wall to the water on the other side, speckled with innumerable little islands of black lava, the mountains in the distance a beautiful dusty pink and tangerine in the pale light. At the time the pool and building was a fraction of the size they seem to be now - I don't imagine that you could enjoy the landscape at all anymore thanks to that sprawling complex, much less now that it is sunk behind 20m high lava barriers. I look forward to your next video documenting this hubris.
Remember this - Volcano(Atlantic rift) gives wonderful natural harbor Grindavik only 900 yrars ago. Once rift is active lava is natural thing. Interesting story was old lava leaks inside berms. I have wondered those pics inside berms. All good to Grindavik people.
I love Iceland, the food more so than the volcanos. Please keep it intact.
Good morning Gylfi,
Greetings again from the Netherlands.
Today we have a storm with lots of rain passing my country. The weather will improve the coming days but the temperatures will go down to around 5-6°C.
Great that the barriers held with the cooling of the lava. Reminds me of many decades ago when I saw Iceland battling lava the same way. You’ve got the power 💪🏽.
May the force be with you the coming time.
Stay safe.
Congratulations on passing the 100k subs.
True🎉.
Love seeing such a honest channel growing.
Wonderful quality - hot but well backed information - perfect for eye👁ear👂and❤, because you never leave without a Smile😀and good mood🤗
No one can second guess Mama Nature. Those guys building the berms are heroes.
Thank you for this update ; I love your humor !! Take care of you.
Always welcome 😊
I think they should build a parkjnglot on the south side of the blue lagoon within the walls. And build an entry road on the east and west side of it near the slopes of mt Thorbjörn.
I will look forward to any doco especially if I see your name attached to it, as I know the photography will be at its very best. Take care
"We usually don't make roads on the new lava until it is one or two weeks old..." 🤣That is good going. The only hold back is a little warm lava. Awesome attitude. In good old South Africa, we can't fix pot holes from years ago...
The idea of parking in Grindavik sounds like a good one, with buses going from there...Hope all continues to go well and thanks for your new update!😀
Thanks 🙂
Absolutely fascinating how you all live at one with nature. I love your beautiful country, and hope to be able to visit again 🇮🇸🇩🇰
Wow! I just hope the cycle of eruptions finally comes to an end soon. And that the damage can continue to be kept to a minimum. Stay safe! 😊
nature : i am going to build a new mountain.
icelanders : we too
We have to keep our selves busy :)
😂
When you showed the Blue Lagoon before the lava came it would have been impressive to see how it looks now ( side by side ).
Gylfi your work is amazing.
❤we were in Akureyri this summer. We loved the botanical garden with the blue poppies from the Himalayas. The knitted decorations of the town were amazing. Thanks for you being you and all that you do❤
Thanks for sharing and welcome back ❤
Thank you and safe travel 💜🙏❤
Many thanks 😊
Beautiful video! Big screen a must.
Another excellent update with stunning images of the volcano island,
Thank you Gylfi.
My pleasure!
Oh, you're in the North? Looks so nice there :), yes, I have family in Norway and they get less hours of light than we do here in Canada, which is pretty short as it is, lol . Thanks for the coverage today.
Another excellent video with great commentary. I look forward to a documentary. Fabulous videos - you are very talented.
Cool to see some footage of driving on the berm
Glad you liked it :) will show the full version soon :)
Loved the opening shots, pink hills were just beautiful 😊
Thanks so much! 😊
Great work and best wishes to all involved from Australia. Here where I live it’s bushfires, and boy do we have a big fuel load for the upcoming summer. I pray for your success, take care
Thank you!
Beautiful footage thank you as always!
Thank you Gylfi!🎉
Magma Cannot afford the ticket price into the Blue Lagoon! Too funny ha ha ha😊
Welcome :)
Thank you for another great update Gylfi 😊😊😊
You have the best posts, thank you very much for all the information and insight.
I am Thinking Mother Nature Always wins!!! But I fight with those who fight the good fight!!! 😊😊😊
As usual excellent footage and explanations, with a hint of humour thrown in! Its admirable how Icelandic people cope with the elements! 😊
Much appreciated 😊
Love the joke about the Lagoon . Takker fyrir mynðband , Gylfi .
Another excellent video Gylfi. Stay safe on your travels down to Reykjanes Peninsula. Takk fyrir.
Hard working bunch of people. Well done to them.
Thanks G.
Di…Cumbria.
Safe travels, Gilfi.
Thanks, will do :)
Safe travels. Best Regards
Great update. Thank you 😊
Thank you
Only In Iceland. No other title is needed!
Keep up the good work!
Good News, holding thumbs for a good result. Thanks for the update Gylfi. Sending you best wishes and greetings from NZ.
Thanks 👍
Thanks Gylfi, always good to catch up and hear about your upcoming projects & travels. Good driving to you, sending love
from Australia 🌏❤
Thanks so much ❤