This is a very active area of Iceland. There are a lot of birds nesting here over the summer months. There are a lot of midges here, bring your insect repellant. The birds feed on the midges. The surrounding land is very fertile, partly because of the minerals brought up from below by the volcanic activity. The land is warm because of the thermal springs around the lake. The lake is fed by the Laxa river which has a lot of brown trout and Atlantic salmon. There are a lot of tourists coming to see Iceland and its special geological features, to study the birds and catch some fish.
Most of the birds have migrated south by mid-September. They fed well on the wild blueberries before leaving. The ducks are still here.
The land around the lake is marked with “pseudo craters”. Unlike regular craters where lava flows up from below the earth’s surface, pseudo-craters are formed when the lava flows across the surface and the heat causes the moisture in the ground below to boil and bubble up like a boiling pot. The lava is pushed up and cools forming the craters.
Can I go here today? Well, I can’t really so choosing to do so via your post as always Doug.. 🙂 such beautiful pics.. Maybe you mentioned it in an earlier post sometime, but what do you use to take the pics?
Most if my pictures are taken with an iPhone. I do carry a bigger, older DSLR camera with interchangeable lenses that I use for zooming into far away details. It is bulky and takes up a lot of space in my carry on. I know it is called a Canon because it weighs so much. 😏Some of the videos are taken with a GoPro as well as the iPhone. They all get some love 💕 in the computer too.