Iceland abounds with grand landscapes, few more diverse and memorable than the basalt sea stacks, steep cliffs, river delta, and black-sand beaches of the Dyrholaey Nature Reserve. The nearest stack used to be a mile or more out to sea, but now connects to the mainland via this sand spit, thanks to sediments washed downriver from multiple eruptions and subglacial floods of the major volcano Katla. The foot of the cliffs at distant right host the famous Halsanefshellir Cave, with the sea stacks of Reynisdrangar to their right. We caught this wide-angle scene under a well-developed altocumulus lenticularis cloud, with a dust storm blowing offshore (in the right-rear distance) from an unseen volcanic alluvial plain. Such a combination of components must be rare indeed, and we were fortunate enough to experience the majesty of it all.
3 WSW Vik, Iceland (16 Aug 14) Looking ENE
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