Geysir

So, in the most volcanic nation on earth, what’s a good way to spend your time?

How about watching water explode out of the earth at regular intervals?

This geysir, whose name is Strokkur [they all have names, of course] is supposed to go off every five minutes or so, but I got lucky and got to watch 3 events in under a minute. Strokkur is little brother to the Great Geysir, but he’s been taking a rest lately [maybe calmed by the recent volcanic activity?], and the two are among 30 or so geysers and hotpots in the immediate vicinity.

After watching a film today at Volcano House on Eyjafjallajökull [the volcano whose plume of ash stranded 100,000 air passengers in 2010, one of them my son], I feel all the more grateful for the wee bits of gas relief that these geysirs provide this explosive country.

Here’s how this one blows…