Well the pictures survived, amazingly, but not the camera. It was in the water a good 15 minutes before the guide finally snagged it so we weren´t particularly hopeful about that. Time for a new one.

It is really pretty amazing that someone we just met would be comfortable to part with his camera (and it is a nice one.) We are renting a car for two days and he is fine with us dropping it back at the Hilton on Thursday before we return the car and board the ship. I almost think he´d be OK with us mailing it back to him in the US. He is over here to do due diligence on a purchase of a 757 by Citibank who will then lease it to an airline. He told us that he has a dozen large file boxes to review - maintenance records, flight logs, etc.

We had a great super jeep tour yesterday which Andi has described in detail. Brad & I actually met our driver/guide, the owner of Nature Explorer, last fall at a temple in Bhutan. He was there with a photography group and we got to chatting and we mentioned that we would be visiting Iceland at which point he whipped out his business card... He is quite the accomplished driver - he trains the Norweigan army in offroad driving, did some training of drivers in Afghanistan. During our drive on the glacier we all felt sure he wouldn´t get stuck!¨

It is another beautiful day today. We are off around 9 AM to the western peninsula (which I can neither spell or pronounce...)