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The lighthouse at Ardnamurchan Point shines out through the evening light in western Scotland.
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The beautiful small lake, Spákonuvatn (The Fortunetellers lake), and the Volcano Keilir; a mountain everyone who arrives via the airport in Keflavík will see when driving to . . . All Information’s, Saga and Camera settings you can find on: www.patreon.com/posts/22754503
A fin whale (or two) off the Alaska Peninsula. The state ferry isn't really a whale watching vessel, but we did get to see a few whales along the way. Watching whales is always fun!
Enchantedlearning.com: The fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, is a huge baleen whale. It is the second largest animal on Earth (the blue whale is the biggest). This whale is sometimes called the "greyhound of the sea" because of its fast swimming speed; it can swim up to 23 mph (37 km/hr) in short bursts.
There are three separate populations of fin whales, one in the northern Pacific, one in the North Atlantic, and one in the Southern Hemisphere; they do not interbreed. This whale usually swims in pods of 3-7 whales but larger groups (up to 300 animals) may form at rich feeding grounds or while migrating.
Fin whales grow to be about 59 to 72 1/4 feet (18-22 m) long and weigh about 30 to 80 tons. The females are slightly larger than the males, as with all baleen whales. Calves weigh about 2 tons at birth.
Fin whales are carnivores that filter-feed plankton (tiny crustaceans like krill, copepods, pteropods, etc.) and small fish from the water. They have very fine grey-black baleen that traps very small particles of food. Each side of the upper jaw has 350-400 baleen plates.
acsonline.org: The fin whale's speed, plus the fact that they prefer the vastness of the open sea, gave them almost complete protection from the early whalers. With modern whaling methods, however, finback whales became easy victims. As blue whales became depleted, the whaling industry turned to the smaller, still abundant fin whales as a replacement. As many as 30,000 fin whales were slaughtered each year from 1935 to 1965. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) placed them under full protection in 1966 beginning with the North Pacific population. Precise estimates are unavailable today, but it is thought that present populations are about 40,000 in the northern hemisphere and 15,000-20,000 in the southern hemisphere, a small percentage of the original population levels.
The beautiful small lake, Spákonuvatn (The Fortunetellers lake), is south of the mountain Trölladyngja; a mountain everyone who arrives via the airport in Keflavík will see when driving to Reykjavík. The small lake is surrounded by geological wonders like Sogið. Although a short distance for Reykjavík and Reykjanesbær town it is place few people visit, so you can expcet a quite and peacful time visiting Spákonuvant. There are also interesting spots to visit nearby like Lambafellsgjá fissure, Keilir mountain and Djúpavatn lake. It is part of the backland and "wilderness" at Reykjanes Peninsula.
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