The northern light tour was great!

Initially, we had a few hours where the numbers predicting activity were looking in our favour, but the actual experience was just watching a band of haze and getting extremely cold.

We changed location and ended up back where Luke had taken us earlier today, which was funny. And it was there that the lights started to form.

Certainly long exposure photos are more spectacular, but watching it happen right there is more exciting. The lights are a grey-green band or bands moving up and down, getting thinner and thicker, bright blobs seem to collect together in places, wisps leap up from the band and curl away and horizontal striations form and drop out lower than the band where they started. It moves quickly, and as my eyes adjust even more to the dark (between taking photos) the colour and detail becomes far clearer. Amazing!

These photos are from the tour guide, Rúnar, I will post my own once I get them off my camera