SEEDS - Volunteering for Iceland

SEEDS 33. Bláfjöll - The Blue Mountains

29.07.2009

Take 17 big trucks of grass 47 meat meal buckets and 12 piles of horse manure Mix it with 13 high motivated volunteers add some forks and rages enough buckets and wheelbarrows Leave this mix together for 2 weeks Interleaving with some trips to Skaftafell,...

SEEDS 21. The old mine of Helgustaðir

22.07.2009

Eskifjorður is a town in the East Fjords and located on the opposite side of Iceland´s capital, Reykjavik. It is known for its fishing industry and since 2005 for the massive and controversial aluminium smelter built just behind the city. The aluminium smelter employs a significant...

SEEDS 05. Þórshöfn & Langannes Peninsula - Happy Days Festivities!

20.07.2009

The Þórshöfn workcamp is a long and well established corporation of SEEDS with this small community close to the “end of the world” at the Langanes peninsula in Iceland’s north-east. Þórshöfn has been involved in reforestation tasks...

SEEDS 26. Nature reserve of Þórsmörk * - The forest of Þór (3)

15.07.2009

6 SEEDS volunteers arrived to Þórsmörk natural reserve which is one of the most beautiful places in Iceland. Þórsmörk surrounded by natural boundaries like mountains, ice caps and Glacier Rivers & lagoons. Þórsmörk...

SEEDS 04. Island of Viðey festival - Viðeyjarhátið

07.07.2009

We live in Viðey hearing the birds sing and fly an island in Reykjavík's sea with nobody nearby, just 9 volunteers and me. Some of us flew from Spain, Korea and Japan others from Germany, Ireland, France and Taiwan for others the stay is not so short, they...

SEEDS 24. Vatnajökull National Park & Kirkjubæjarklaustur

04.07.2009

Two groups of our volunteers have just returned from their two weeks projects nearby Vatnajökull glacier, leaving a successfully completed project and lots of good times behind us, and bringing many good memories and new friendships back home. Each group worked in different places...

SEEDS 03. The highlands of Iceland - The famous Kjölur road!

29.06.2009

This workcamp took 7 volunteers from 4 different countries – Austria, France, Germany and Italy – to the remote place of Kerlingarfjöll. Kerlingarfjöll is a collection of mountain huts about 20 minutes from the famous Kjölur road, which allows visitors in good motorized...

Scared of sheep heads? - SEEDS 20. The North of Iceland - Nature & fun!

20.06.2009

Fnjóskadalur, after one week we are still impressed by the view. If I look to the right I can see mountains and only far, far in the distance can I see another house. In front there is a little church and the house of the host and mountains with snow and on the left (after a few mountains)...

SEEDS 19. Hólmavík hiking paths

20.06.2009

Hólmavík, a town of about 300 people is one of the largest settlements in the West Fjords. This region, with an area as large as Wales, but populated by only 7000 people, is attracted by a rising number of tourists who enjoy its beauty and special, quiet atmosphere. Our...

SEEDS 02. Western Fjords - Seamans Festival

15.06.2009

I can honestly say that the time I have spent in Tálknafjörður and Bíldudalur in the last 2 weeks, has been one of the most interesting and satisfying things I have ever done (as I have spent 2 years living abroad, travelled extensively and have done a number of other volunteer...