Tamara Georgick Iceland-Day 3
Oct 20th, 2009 Posted in Activities, Iceland, Tamara Georgick | 7 comments »Geothermal Power Plants, Waterfalls, Hot Springs, Glaciers and Geysers, oh my!
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Starting from above and moving clockwise – Our tour bus, the name made us chuckle: Salty Tour Typical landscape, mountains aren’t that high, maybe 3000ft, but feel close and every where you look there are examples of recent (relatively speaking in terms of how old the earth is) geologic activity. At the Nesjavellir Geothermal Plant Visitor’s Center, Tamara Georgick pretending to give a lecture on geothermal energy, and thoroughly confusing two British tourists. |
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On the left is Geysir, named after the Icelandic word meaning to erupt, and, you guessed it, from which the English word geyser derives. Written accounts of it date back to 1294. It’s sleepy and doesn’t erupt much more than once a day, a couple of yards away is the Strokkur geyser which is constantly in action. There were hot pools and geysers and steam escaping from fissures all over this place and nothing was tightly cordoned off, you could easily have stuck a hand in hot boiling water if you so desired. The hot pool below, was very cool, hopefully you can make out the darkening crevasse under the water, which, I’m almost certain, reaches straight down to the center of the earth.
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<<<<<< Ev with impressive Viking chainsaw art. |
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| Gullfoss – a double decker waterwall. It was spectacular! And one of two falls we saw today. | |
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