Iceland 2019 - Land of Fire and Ice

These waves just got bigger and bigger

There were many hot springs as we traveled toward Vik. And we were fortunate to see a lovely rainbow.

We visited a geothermal plant just east of Reykjavík.Magma that accumulates Into the ground produces heated water from nature's precipitation. Water that has evaporated from the oceans surface falls as precipitation in the highlands. It seeps into the bedrock along with glacial meltwater and heats up when it comes on contact with magma intrusions. The Geothermal plant digs down about a mile where the geothermal fluid rises up a pipe. The fluid is about 570 degrees. As seen in the first picture with the yellow box. They cool it to just to below boiling to transport. There are two pictures showing this process; steam is visible in this process. The water is used to heat fresh water. Once the water is used it is sent back down the pipe to keep stability in the magnum area. The warm water has a sulfur smell but cold does not. At the Hellisheioi geothermal power plant this geothermal fluid is extracted from production wells and used for electricity and hot water production. S...

We are traveling from Stykkisholmur to Vik today and there are so many sheep. It is obvious where they get the wool for those lovely sweaters.

We stopped to climb among the volcanic rock. The pillar columns occurred because the lava cooled quickly.

I have included a few pictures of places in  Stykkisholmur. Sent from my iPhone

Well this catch is beautiful, but they say it is tasty as well. The fishermen opened the shells and removed the seafood, mostly scallops but also sea urchin eggs and clams. June bravely ate 5 scallops and Joanne gulped down 4 scallops.