Last entry, we spent the night in Reykjahlíð on the shores of the Myvatn lake. The lake itself is very picturesque, but the interesting stuff is in the nearby hills. Just east of town, there is a very active geothermal area including an electricity generation plant at Kafla.
This first video gives an idea of why they can produce power here.
The second has me repeating the phrase “Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble” for some reason.
We also walked a bit around the power station and some some old craters like this.
The steam in the background on that one is from some of the power generation equipment.
We took a break in the later afternoon by hitting the mineral baths back in Reykjahlíð before heading off to Godafoss for the night. The entire drive there, Liane was concerned the mineral waters would make me drowsy.
lovely pictures. Great info. Couldn’t get the videos to run longer than 2 seconds.