Animals in Iceland

We have seen many animals throughout Iceland. This includes getting stampeded by a herd of sheep, reindeer who run away terrified when we come close to them, and horses that came running towards us.

We took this photo just out side of Lake Myvatn. We saw this herd of sheep as we were driving to our house in Akureyri, and we just had to stop and give them carrots.

They were hesitant at first, then stampeded straight for us, begging for carrots. As time went on, less started to come, and it was the same three eating the carrots.

This herd of horses was like many others, in that we stopped to feed them carrots. The unique thing about these guys was that they had no clue what carrots were, and ended up nibbling on my jackey whole ignoring the carrots. Other horses along the way definitely knew what carrots were, and ate them enthusiastically.

We saw this reindeer right outside of Hofn. Another car had partners to watch It, but it reacted differently to us. It was hilarious how scared it was of us. I got out of the car with a bag of carrots and it screamed at me, running away, looking back over its shoulder in terror. The phrase that popped into both my dad's head and mine was "stranger danger".

It was remarkable how many beasts we found in Iceland, and how so many of them were friendly.

Today we fly back to the states, and I am just so happy that I have all of these great memories of Iceland.

Location:Laugavegur,Reykjavík,Iceland