Caption This Picture

[Bahri]

Name the waterfall:

[DrAliciaHill]

Do you want this named in fact, or captioned in fancy?

[Bahri]

I know the waterfall was just checking if anyone else could identify this if you know the name probably wait few days see if anyone else can name this or caption.

[bluenose]

Viagra Falls because the water is going up not down.

[nperpetuity]

@Bahri Palouse Falls?

[Bahri]

No, Gullfoss. The main waterfall is out of frame in this picture but you can see the edge of it at the top left.

https://gullfoss.is/

Gullfoss is more than just a pretty waterfall; it has a story to tell. In the early 20th century, foreign investors wanted to harness the power of Gullfoss to produce electricity. In 1907 Howells, an Englishman wanted to buy Gullfoss from Tómas Tómasson, a farmer who owned Gullfoss at this time. Tómas declined Howells’ offer to buy the waterfall, but later he leased it to him. The farmer’s daughter, Sigríður Tómasdóttir who grew up on his father’s sheep farm, sought to have the rental contract voided. Sigriður using her savings, hired a lawyer in Reykjavik to defend her case. The trial lasted years, and Sigriður went several times barefoot on traitorous terrain to Reykjavik to follow up on her case. She even threatened to throw herself into the waterfall if the construction would begin. Her attempts failed in court, but before damage was done to the waterfall, the contract was disposed of due to the lack of payments of the rent fee. The struggles of Sigríður to preserve the waterfall brought to people’s attention to the importance of protecting nature. Therefore she is often called Iceland’s first environmentalist.

In 1940 Einar Guðmundsson Sigríðar’s brother, acquired the waterfall from Sigríður’s father and later sold it to the Icelandic government. Gullfoss and its environs were designated as a nature reserve in 1979 to permanently protect the waterfall and allow the public to enjoy this unique area.

Svavar Njarðarson and his wife, Elfa Björk Magnúsdóttir, formed and have run the service centre at Gullfoss since 1996. Svavar is the son of Njörður Jónsson and Guðrún Lára Ágústsdóttir, Nörðurs mother was Einar Guðmundsson’s sister. Njörður was as young child ofen spending summers at Sigríður’s farm. In the year 1977 Einar inherited Brattholt to Njörður and his family, and they became farmers at Brattholt after that. Foreign visitors and other tourists were always nearby and were stopping by the farm asking for guidance and service. In 1985, tourism began at Brattholt by offering tourists accommodation and food. The service centre at Gullfoss, called Gullfosskaffi (Café Gullfoss) started in a tiny location near Sigríðarstofa (info and service center build by the Govermet in the year 1990) at the edge of the land surrounding Gullfoss. They began in an small green tent and were by offering some coffee and their now-famous homemade soup during the summer months. Since then the centre has grown into a landmark in itself with a spacious restaurant, an interesting store and a unique panorama platform.

Here’s a picture from winter when it freezes:

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[Bahri]

Wait no that may be a different one.

[Bahri]

There are a lot of waterfalls there here is a different one:

Goðafoss

The origin of the waterfall’s name is not completely clear. In modern Icelandic, the name can be read either as “waterfall of the goð (pagan idols)” or “waterfall of the goði (chieftain).” Linguist and placename expert Svavar Sigmundsson suggests that the name derives from two crags at the falls which resemble pagan idols. In 1879–1882, a myth was published in Denmark according to which the waterfall was named when the lawspeaker Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði made Christianity the official religion of Iceland in the year 999 or 1000. Upon returning home from the Alþingi, Þorgeir supposedly threw his statues of the Norse gods into the waterfall. However, although the story of Þorgeir’s role in the adoption of Christianity in Iceland is preserved in Ari Þorgilsson’s Íslendingabók, no mention is made of Þorgeir throwing his idols into Goðafoss. The legend appears to be a nineteenth-century fabrication.[3] Nevertheless, a window in Akureyrarkirkja, the main church at Akureyri, illustrates this story.

[nperpetuity]

Whoa, that is so beautiful!

[Scarmoge]

… album cover art from Tangerine Dream’s Electronic Meditation. BTW … the fMRI scans of folks listening to this album … well, lets just say … they are very, very interesting as is the brain activity following.

[DrAliciaHill]

Yes!
Caption this Picture:

[Sal2lee]

I should have used cream rinse after I shampooed.

[DrAliciaHill]

Graduate of the Marquis de Sade Ecole de Cosmétologie

[sharick]

Another of Sid’s mutant toys from Toy Story

[manhattan]

What a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing with us.

Did you know that the landscape in, especially, the first AVATAR film is a real place, not only computer-generated?
It’s called Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province, China. It was breathtaking.The mountain range meanders all the way down to Vietnam. They call it the “dragon’s teeth.” Traveling along the snake winding roads to arrive there was as exciting as being up in the lifts. Somehow, though, I ended up in a very small, one-person lift so high up, alone, in sheer terror for my life. I promise never to do that again.

[Bahri]

didn’t know about that

[DrAliciaHill]

Caption Capers
9-2-23
Directions: Write a caption for this photo. Or, post a picture of your own to be captioned by fellow Gizas.
Ready? Clear your head.
Close your eyes.
Ok, open! Voila!

[Bill10558]

Let’s follow him. He’s not like all the others.

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