After another plentiful breakfast, we walked a couple blocks to the bus stop. Waited in 32 degree, light breeze, and light snow conditions for our ride. We boarded a tour bus and started our day's journey.
First stop, a greenhouse operation growing tomatoes, with some Basil and bell peppers.
One of the attendants said each of the tomato plants provides fruit for about nine months.
The pipes that circulate heated water also serve as tracks for the utility wagons and ladders used for tending plants and picking fruit.
Bumblebees used to pollinate the plants.
Here's some Basil. I would like to have spend more time in the garden and asked some more questions. For instance, why they don't use honeybees instead of bumblebees and harvest two crops. Maybe the need to maintain the hives would offset to potential benefits.
Thought you could figure out the appropriate captions for the rest of the photos.
Back on the bus, we went to the second stop on our Golden Circle tour, Geyser Park.
There was a small crowd here on the overlook areas. It made it sufficient to get unobstructed photos. I imagine it must be a real circus in the tourist season.
Tonight we are scheduled to take the Northern Lights tour so I'll post this and add another post later covering our quest to see those elusive lights.
I packed my crampons just in case. I was glad when we reached the trails. Lots of ice and frozen snow made for treacherous walking. I was glad to have those little tungsten spikes to stabilize my boots on the ice.
The fumaroles with temperatures 80-100 degrees centigrade were an interesting contrast to their icy surroundings.
The original "Geyser" which gives us the word in English and from which geysers everywhere from Yellowstone to around the world are named.
Icicles forming in the below freezing weather formed from the steam rising from the hot pots where it cooled and condensed on this rope.
Next stop was not far from the geysers. The famous Gullfoss waterfall.
No comments:
Post a Comment