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Rented this excellent Honda XL (built 1978!) from La Libertalia. What a great little bike! It's got all you need for a days worth of biking through mudpools etc.
Would not have been able to make this trip with a cheap Chinese Lifan bike…
Taken on my recent holiday to New Zealand.
This was taken on the little ferry accross the river to the hidden valley. I loved this place, a wonderful geothermal park, full of geysers, thermal pools, mudpools and lots of stinky holes in the ground :)
A bubbling mudpool in Hverir, the geothermal area beneath Námafjall, in the northerh Mývatn area, Iceland.
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
How on earth do the trees and plants survive!
Whakarewarewa are the geothermal pools located near Rotorua in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's north island. There are geysers, mud pools, and...plenty of pleasant odors? It's worth a visit, and there's a comfortable boardwalk that goes around the mudpools.
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Boiling hot mudpools at Námaskard, near Myvatn in northern Iceland. In Iceland the crust of the earth is so thin at places that you can feel the warmth of the earth through the soles of your shoes. In places like this you'd better watch your step lest you'll be boiled. - View On Black
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Lake Rotorua is the second largest lake in the North Island.
The water has a high sulphur content due to the still active geothermal activity (geysers and mudpools) below and around the lake.
On a fine day you would see the magical green-blue colouration reflection. I was not that lucky as dark clouds drifting in. It was raining heavily from that night onwards.
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
It looks harmless but it's hot ... very hot.
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Vachellia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, commonly known as thorn trees or acacias. It belongs to the subfamily Mimosoideae. Its species were considered members of genus Acacia until 2009. Vachellia can be distinguished from other acacias by its capitate inflorescences and spinescent stipules.
The members of Vachellia are trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, and are always armed. Younger plants, especially, are armed with spines which are modified stipules, situated near the leaf bases.
Vachellia collinsii (also known as Acacia collinsii) is native to Central America and parts of Africa. It grows in secondary succession in seasonally dry ecosystems in southern Central America, with preferences to Savannah-like climate.
Vachellia collinsii can grow up to 40 feet tall. The tree grows relatively straight with thorns generously distributed across the branches.
It exhibits a symbiotic relationship with several species of ant (Pseudomyrmex spinicola, Pseudomyrmex ferruginea). The ant-Vachellia system involving this species has been studied by ecologists like Daniel Janzen in Palo Verde National Park and Santa Rosa National Park, both in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. The ants chew holes in the tips of the hollow stipular thorns, known as domatia, so that they can enter, and create their colony inside. A single ant colony may span several V. collinsii trees. Medium sized herbivores are deterred by the thorns but the ants help protect the trees from attack by other smaller or larger animals such as caterpillars and elephants. When a predator brushes and shakes the plant’s thorns in an attempt to feed, the ants will become disturbed and run outside and release alarm pheromones to alert other ants. All ants that come in contact with the volatile become aggressive and attack the animal by biting and stinging.
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Vachellia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, commonly known as thorn trees or acacias. It belongs to the subfamily Mimosoideae. Its species were considered members of genus Acacia until 2009. Vachellia can be distinguished from other acacias by its capitate inflorescences and spinescent stipules.
The members of Vachellia are trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, and are always armed. Younger plants, especially, are armed with spines which are modified stipules, situated near the leaf bases.
Vachellia collinsii (also known as Acacia collinsii) is native to Central America and parts of Africa. It grows in secondary succession in seasonally dry ecosystems in southern Central America, with preferences to Savannah-like climate.
Vachellia collinsii can grow up to 40 feet tall. The tree grows relatively straight with thorns generously distributed across the branches.
It exhibits a symbiotic relationship with several species of ant (Pseudomyrmex spinicola, Pseudomyrmex ferruginea). The ant-Vachellia system involving this species has been studied by ecologists like Daniel Janzen in Palo Verde National Park and Santa Rosa National Park, both in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. The ants chew holes in the tips of the hollow stipular thorns, known as domatia, so that they can enter, and create their colony inside. A single ant colony may span several V. collinsii trees. Medium sized herbivores are deterred by the thorns but the ants help protect the trees from attack by other smaller or larger animals such as caterpillars and elephants. When a predator brushes and shakes the plant’s thorns in an attempt to feed, the ants will become disturbed and run outside and release alarm pheromones to alert other ants. All ants that come in contact with the volatile become aggressive and attack the animal by biting and stinging.
Read about Craters of the moon and see more pictures of New Zealand at my blog - Craters of the Moon.
The mud pools and steam vents on the southwest part of Reykjanes close to Reykjanes lighthouse are collectively named Gunnuhver after a female ghost that was laid there. She had caused great disturbance until a priest set a trap for her and she fell into the spring. This happend about 400 years ago.
The mud pools form where steam from boiling geothermal resevoir water emanates and condenses and mixes with surface water. Accompanying gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide make the water acid. This causes alteration of the fresh lava rock to clay.
Two ramps are located at the Gunnuhver group, on close to Gunnuhver itself where you can look down to the spring and hear the vigorous noice, see the boiling water and feel lthe power bursting from the ground and the steam on your face. The other ramp is located on Kísilhól a silica hill. From there you have a good view over Gunnuhver group and suroundings.
More information at www.visitreykjanes.is.
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Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Rincón de la Vieja National Park (Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja), is a National Park in Guanacaste Province of the northwestern part of Costa Rica.
It encompasses the Rincón de la Vieja and Santa María volcanoes, as well as the dormant Cerro Von Seebach. The last eruption here was by Rincón de la Vieja in 2017. It is part of the Guanacaste Conservation Area and the Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site.
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Hacienda Guachipelin, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Parque Nacional Rincon de la Vieja.
Rincón de la Vieja National Park (Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja), is a National Park in Guanacaste Province of the northwestern part of Costa Rica.
It encompasses the Rincón de la Vieja and Santa María volcanoes, as well as the dormant Cerro Von Seebach. The last eruption here was by Rincón de la Vieja in 2017. It is part of the Guanacaste Conservation Area and the Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site.
This mud pool belongs to the volcano crater Solfatara, in Pozzuoli, near Naples in Italy. It is a dormant volcano which still emits jets of steam with sulfurous fumes.
Cette flaque de boue en ébullition est située dans le cratère du volcan Solfatare près de Naples en Italie. La Solfatare est un volcan dormant plat à sol de cendres et de soufre, dont l'activité postvolcanique est constituée principalement de fumerolles.