Vik's Black Sand Beach - a photo on Flickriver

Vik's Black Sand Beach

            Vik Iceland in late afternoon light in early October 2014. Captured with Olympus OEM-10. 

Vik is the most southern Village in the country.  Its super easy to get to as its right on the ring road.

Wikipedia says that "In 1991, the US journal Islands Magazine counted this beach as one of the ten most beautiful beaches on Earth.  Its stretch of black basalt sand is one of the wettest places in Iceland."

It is full of beauty that is for sure.  
You might be able to see some white dots in the right top area in the shadows of the mountain.  
These are birds not dust or spray on the lens. 

The place is loaded with them, you can hear the calling non-stop even above the roar of the ocean waves and wind.  

They say puffins like to live in this area. Since I don't live near puffins, I am unfamiliar with their ways and I can't say for sure what they are.  

The fingers of basalt rock out in the water are a famous landmark and of course it being Iceland they have a great story to go with them.

Folklore tells us that they are former trolls who tried to drag their boats out to sea only to be caught by the rising dawn.

Two images made into a Panorama on the desktop in Photoshop and Nik's Viveza Plugin.

Taken in: Ísland / Vestur-Skaftafellssysla (show map)

Taken on: March 29, 2015

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