Botany on Skaftafell
I got a bit bored looking at the Skaftafelljökull glacier, hiking there today. It just lay there. Earlier at the visitor center, I saw a quick movie about the area, and there was something about 200 species of flowering plants and fungi, and I didn't catch whether that was a lot or not many at all. It was in relation to the end of the last ice age, some 12,000 years ago, which ended much later in Iceland for whatever reason, and was some 200 species a lot for such a short time since? or not many at all because it was such a short time since?
On the Austerbrekkur trail, I pickt every flower I came across hiking in the mountain along side the glacier, and presst it into a 2D memory. It's a big I love you bunch of flowers, Rolf, Andrea and Bryn.
I can truthfully say I'll never get around to identifying any of these. I mean, I won't even attempt it. I wanted to be a botanist once...
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