As with similar hot-spring pools in Yellowstone geothermal areas, heat-loving micro-organisms accentuate the natural blue hue of the mineral water, which is too torrid for human touch. Such a stark and strange scene conveys the rawness of this Earth before human habitation, or perhaps, after the last of us is extinguished.
Haukadalsvegur, Iceland (11 Aug 14) Looking SE
64.3138, -20.3016Blue Hole of Haukadalur
As with similar hot-spring pools in Yellowstone geothermal areas, heat-loving micro-organisms accentuate the natural blue hue of the mineral water, which is too torrid for human touch. Such a stark and strange scene conveys the rawness of this Earth before human habitation, or perhaps, after the last of us is extinguished.
Haukadalsvegur, Iceland (11 Aug 14) Looking SE
64.3138, -20.3016