In the morning we woke up and went and toured gullfoss. This
was a very neat and large waterfall. You were allowed to get fairly close to
it. It is a 2 tiered waterfall and the total drop was about 35 meters. All the
literature compares this to Niagara Falls. I say not even close. The experience
overall was very neat as you could get so close and it was not thronged with
people.
Next we headed to geysir, to see well geysirs. This is where
the word geyser comes from. They had a geyser
(strokkur) that went off every 6-8 minutes. It was pretty big and again you
could get close enough to feel the hot water spray when it went off. In the
park they also had a very interactive visitor center that had lots of
information on geologic activities such as volcanoes, geysirs, and earthquakes.
Besides the gesysir they also had lots of steam vents and mud pots.
After this we drove a while into the town of selfloss. We
found a parking lot to take a short nap. Then we headed into the pool to let
the girls have some free time and bill and I hung out in a wonderful hot tub.
The water was warmer and deeper than the kid’s pool so nice for relaxing.
After the swim we used the showers there to get cleaned up and headed on our
way.
We decided to drive a little further this night and headed
to Hella to spend the night. We checked into a camp ground there. It was simple
but allowed us to plug in for the night, refill water and empty the toilet.
There was a pretty river that ran through the campground. This ended up being a
completely uneventful night and the girls enjoyed being able to run around the
campground. Unfortunately there were no other kids to play with.
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