Monday 3 December 2012

geyser!!

I made a mistake....Te Aroha has the only natural soda water GEYSER in the world!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=soda+water+geyser&sourceid=Mozilla-search

It is the first one on the list....
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5 comments:

Dru Marland said...

that'a a relief: I was starting to wonder....

3 December 2012 at 19:57
soubriquet said...

~I was very well behaved... Unlike my usual self...

I recall my friends in Iceland stopping at a farm gate. Just inside the gate, by the side of the track was a clear pool. Hanging above the pool, was a ladle. My friends showed me how to use the ladle to draw water from about a foot down. Like magic, it fizzed and bubbled, ice-cold and pure, and.... it made you burp!

Geysers... Oh yes. Iceland and New Zealand should be twinned. Both harvest geothermal energy, both have volcanoes, and... Geysers.
The original, in Iceland was called "Geysir", from whence the generic term came. these days, Geysir is prett well dormant, largely because in times passed, people discovered that you could provoke it by dropping boulders in. Smaller ones were shot, spectacularly into the sky, but eventually, poor old Geysir had a throat full of rocks.
Nowadays the crowd-pleaser beside Geysir is his understudy, 'Strokkur'. And Strokkur never fails to give full value.

I've drunk sparkling water from a spring in Buxton too. Derbyshire fizz. Burp.

But spouting soda springs? I never got close enough to Strokkur to find out... There are warnings all over the place not to step off the wooded walkways, as the surrounding ground is often a thin veneer of what looks like solidity, on top of boiling mud.

3 December 2012 at 21:10
Zhoen said...

I'll accept that. The one in Soda Springs, although from a natural soda spring, is not a natural geyser. They were drilling and tapped into the spring - creating a man-made geyser.

Hard to imagine there aren't any in Yellowstone, but I've never heard of any.

4 December 2012 at 02:19
Zhoen said...

Only natural hot water soda geyser.

4 December 2012 at 02:21
Dru Marland said...

aha- I did wonder, what with that naturally sparkling mineral water you can get. We drink lots of fizzy water chez Marland, but apparently it's bad for your bones.

4 December 2012 at 02:26

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