Christina’s Journey Journal

Tag: Geysir

  • With these amazing people in Iceland! 🇮🇸

    With these amazing people in Iceland! 🇮🇸

    A hodgepodge of photos from the last couple of days.

    Getting ready to do some whale watching! 🐋
    🩵Blue Lagoon’in’ it🩵
    Matching braids at the Geysir

    Outside Tapas Barinn getting ready to moooove inside! 🐄 🇪🇸

    Passionfruit Sangria at Tapas Barinn🍷

    Cheers to us and beautiful Iceland 🇮🇸

    We tried to see Northern Lights today but they were shy! Therefore, we had some hot chocolate and did some stargazing. That was Mike and my 3rd attempt this trip. Next time!💚

  • Golden Circle continues with our afternoon adventures

    Golden Circle continues with our afternoon adventures

    Gullfoss – Golden Falls

    This multi tiered waterfall is in the canyon of the Hvita River and it’s overwhelming! We viewed it from above and then walked down to view it from the top. 💦

    Walking alongside Gullfoss

    Then we headed to the Geysir Hot Spring in the Haukadalur Valley and saw the ground steam and boil! I also captured the Strokkur Geyser blowing boiling water 30 meters high (98 feet). The Great Geysir is here, too, but it lays dormant these days (after blowing up to 558 feet high at one point). The Great Geysir is what all other hot springs are named after (such as the Old Faithful Geyser) as it was the first to be described in a printed source. It’s like the Kleenex of geysers!

    Can you hear the water boiling?
    Smoldering fields
    There she blows! Every few minutes, Strokkur (the Churn) lives up to its name of being a geyser.
    The now dormant Great Geysir

    Then we headed for an afternoon treat at a 7 generation dairy farm, Efstidalur, complete with ice cream and farm animals.

    Chocolate, White Chocolate and Stracciatella
    Eating our ice cream and watching the cows in the barn! Two scoops to these amazing creatures who gave us the milk for the incredible ice cream!