geysir

It's our last day, and we have to be back at the Keflavík airport, some 150km away over a mountain pass) for a 5PM flight. So we did most of the so-called Golden Circle tour, visiting Geysir and Gullfoss.

Geysir is the ur-geyser, which just means gusher. The original Geysir is no longer terribly active (apparently all the rocks and laundry soap put in there to impress visiting bigwigs with a big burst finally had an effect on it), so the spotlight has moved to the regularly spouting Strokkur, a few yards away.

What's cool is that right before the geyser erupts, it forms this dome of water as it comes up the spout. It was tricky to catch it, and I got soaked once when the wind shifted, but it was mesmerizing all the same.

I'm thankful to have had a motor drive on my camera, but its 3 frame per second rate was a little slow to catch the rapid changes in the dome. Someday I'll get a camera with a faster motor drive.