Our last day began with breakfast, as always and then we were off to do the Golden Circle. We stopped at Sudurland to record remarkable views (as the winds were growing) and then were off to Kerid which was a collapsed volcano that the guide said might just be for volcano enthusiasts. The views were suitably remarkable that we greeted the local dog and then made our way around stopping to have our pictures taken by some Finnish folks and then continued

pausing for a picture of Jane as we looked down at the crater and then at the surrounding countryside and recorded some wildflowers as Jane bid a final farewell to the crater and we declared ourselves volcano enthusiasts as we headed to the car and made our way to Gullfoss where we could see the mist rising from a distance and so followed the trail until we approached the waterfalls

and the rocks that helped define it.

There were many views to record

sometime with Jane in the picture sometimes with others but many pictures to be taken in any case since the falls presented themselves in fascinating fashion

as Jane took these pictures of me and more falls photos

as I made it along the path for this picture and after some mist we took this self portrait and then aimed to get the very best view

and then aimed downstream

and one more of the depth before a friendly person took this picture of us and we headed away from the falls with a few last pictures before Jane recorded me with this hero we took a last look back and then were on our way to the gift shop where this friendly lady welcomed us and we took pictures of ourselves in Viking garb before heading down the road to the Geysir hot springs area where the map told the story and this stone marked the original Geysir (in the world) which unfortunately no longer erupts on any regular schedule but we did record Strokkur as it got ready and then erupted as it does every 5-10 minutes and then we made our way around the geyser basin capturing the beautiful colors of Konungshver and a wide view and our location before taking a long view and capturing this bird as we made our way down to the cafeteria where Jane got into the frame as did I so that we could capture the menu and take one last photo to end the roll before we gassed up and made our way down roads right and wrong that took us to this lovely which commemorated Thomas Gudmundsson Skald who I can now identify as an Icelandic poet and here is the text of his poem Fljotid Helga (The Holy River) but somehow, I don't think this was the picture he was describing in his poetry, rather this was left over from an alien landing.

Next we were on to pINGVELLIR where we walked up past this cliff (which turned out to be Europe so that we could walk on a trail between the European (to the left) and North American (to the right) plates

and we reached a waterfall along the way before marching on to a rocky outcropping where the advice was to go back the way we came which we did and we found information about the significance of Pingvellir in Icelandic (and world) history as the home of the first parliament

and as we marched on and obeyed the guidance to not throw coins we looked down to the river formed from the waterfall to see many coins but we pressed on to hear about more things that happened on the site for the last 1100 years

before we got back to the trail and were able to walk between two continents in an astonishing fashion

until we reached the sign for the visitor's center and went in to see the continental drift over the past 1000 years identified by sign and by distance. After a few admiring pictures into the distance and some photos of further divides as we sought to absorb the majesty of what we were seeing we recorded one last compass a few more pictures looking back at the divide and then were on our way back towards Keflavik where we saw smoke in the distance and knew that we were approaching the Blue Lagoon where words (and even photos) cannot describe the experience.

After a relaxing soak, we went on to Keflavik where Jane was happy to see rolls and I was happy to see beer as we had one last meal and then captured the Reykjanesbaer sign in the 11 PM light.