Today we had an outing with several people from work. Ten of us piled into an “excursion vehicle” and headed up into the highlands for a trip to an ice cave. On the way we stopped at Barnafoss, which I’d never been to although I had heard it was beautiful. This description fails completely to describe it.
The waterfall emerges from the hillside without a visible source. Apparently, the lavafield is so porous that water just runs through it, but underneath, there’s a layer of basalt so this underground river emerges here. Amazing.
It joins up with a real river that churns through a narrow gorge crisscrossed by land bridges.See that blue in the water? It’s really that blue, maybe even bluer in real life. Rob said that he thought it was like a giant bath of Bombay Blue Sapphire; it’s that blue.
Legend has it that two children were playing on one of these land bridges and fell in. Their mother had that bridge destroyed so no other children would drown there.
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It is an amazing shade of blue. Very beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing.
You should come visit. Clearly, everyone should come visit me.
And bring you bagels?
Ha! I don’t know if French bagels will cut it, since I’m used to New York bagels. Although, they’ve got to be better than Icelandic bagels.
I don’t even know if we have French bagels…I think we’re not very Bagel-y.