{"id":214,"date":"2023-11-05T17:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T17:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2023-11-05T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T17:25:35","slug":"day-4-stodvarfjordur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/05\/day-4-stodvarfjordur\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 &#8212; St\u00f6\u00f0varfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first Icelandic Flight of the Sitka P. Coldfoot Memorial Drone is a success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took a couple of times to get the drone airborne due to some connectivity issues, but I had a brief window where it wasn&#8217;t raining and decided to make the most of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the liftoff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Drone-Take-Off.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitka would be proud!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For much of the morning, the sun was trying to break through and put a stop to the rain, but without a ton of success.  The good news is that even when it&#8217;s pouring, it&#8217;s still pretty gorgeous here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_111339-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_111339-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_111339-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_111339-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_111339-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_111339-2048x1153.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_111339-2000x1126.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_111339-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_111339-1200x676.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside the Fish Factory, I went to my favorite room upstairs that has a view of the fjord.  The sun was peaking through and it was gorgeous:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_140306-2.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks kind of like something magical, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I taped a couple of videos for various things this morning that I&#8217;ll be shaping into a few different things and will share them soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve written four new stories in four days.  My goal for this month is 20-30 original stories, which is about one per day&#8230; so I&#8217;m on track with that.  (Eventually the stories will come out as a book, but that&#8217;s a ways down the road).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:54% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_210457-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_210457-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_210457-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_210457-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_210457-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_210457-2048x1153.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_210457-2000x1126.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_210457-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231104_210457-1200x676.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>After I got home, I kept getting alerts from an Aurora app that there were Northern Lights happening.  The only problem is that we&#8217;ve basically had 100% cloud cover every night since I&#8217;ve been here, so even if there are lights above, we&#8217;ll won&#8217;t see them as long as the entire sky is basically covered in clouds.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I did put on my boots and jacket and go outside at one point, but since I couldn&#8217;t even see the stars or the moon, there were no Northern Lights for me.  It should clear up next week, so I&#8217;m keeping my fingers crossed for that.   The picture above is light reflected in the falling rain (which I kind of like even though it&#8217;s not the Aurora).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Icelandic Flight of the Sitka P. Coldfoot Memorial Drone is a success. It took a couple of times to get the drone airborne due to some connectivity issues, but I had a brief window where it wasn&#8217;t raining and decided to make the most of it. Here&#8217;s the liftoff: Sitka would be proud! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/05\/day-4-stodvarfjordur\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 4 &#8212; St\u00f6\u00f0varfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesoficeland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}