Why is the sand black in iceland
Exploring Iceland's Black Sand Beach
I'm hanging out at the beach today and I
won't even try to pronounce it I'll just
put the name of it at the bottom of the
screen but I'm headed up to that which
is the arch and there's a lighthouse and
everything up there I just wanted to
show you what it looks like from down
here first this area also has those
amazing basalt rocks you can see all the
people hanging out at them so first I'm
going to go up there and then when the
lighting is a little better and them
hopefully the wind has died down I'm
gonna show you this area but I just
wanted to show you this crazy Beach
first these waves are incredible
breaking look at that
Wow
alright so now I'm on the top of where I
showed you before I was a couple miles
down there on that beach and but I've
made it up here if you have a
four-wheel-drive vehicle you can drive
up here on a dirt road which is
definitely easier than hiking all the
way up here because it is so windy this
country is extremely windy at least
right now it is but this is the arch and
it's really two arches and I was hoping
that there was a trail that you could
walk down and walk on to the arch and
actually walk on top of it but it's
pretty narrow and there's really no
trail so I'm not gonna be doing that
look at all that erosion that's
happening - you can see all that erosion
eventually this will probably all fall
off into the ocean as well you can see
the stone wall here is just kind of
breaks off crazy there is a lighthouse
up here as well this is kind of like a
big like a big plateau up here and it's
windy windy beautiful but windy look at
the view on the other side it goes
straight down I don't know how high that
is and you can see all those rocks down
there that fill from the top no barriers
no fence
you could go he could you could go right
down this - there's a good view of the
beach and again it just it's hard to
show on camera but that is a massive
massive drop now that the light the Sun
has changed directions we're gonna go
back down to the original beach and I'm
gonna show you some sea caves that are
down there and those rocks there's an
interesting folk folklore an interesting
tale about those rocks I'm getting
blowing all over the place they're about
those big rocks that are out in the sea
so I'm gonna tell you about that and
show you some really interesting rock
formations some basalt rocks from lava
and all kinds of things down there so
I'm going there right now alright so
this now it's down at the beach
this is obviously a popular area so you
can see there's quite a few people here
but I mean this look how high this goes
and look at these rocks
the beach goes from sand to this
millions of these really smooth black
rocks as you get closer to this wall you
can see how interesting is that now I
guess from what I've read this is formed
by fast flowing lava from many many
years ago and although this looks like a
cave it's actually just kind of a like a
cave bluff it only goes in about maybe
25 30 feet but it's interesting how all
this stone splinters off like that
and right next to that cave Bluff are
these incredible rock stacks here very
very popular for people to take pictures
of themselves and they're actually like
little seats you can sit on them okay
they're almost smooth from people so
many people sitting on them pretty
amazing I've never really seen anything
like this
so coming around the corner closer to
the beach it is so windy here and the
beach has gone from those rocks that I
told you about to this crazy they look
like little babies or something volcanic
rock there's another one of those kind
of sea cave type Bluffs this one goes in
about maybe 40 feet or so 3540 feet but
the real gem of this area are these
stacks out here and it's not the
greatest of angles but there's there's
an interesting folklore to them and
basically what it is is there were two
trolls who were dragging a ship a
three-masted ship to the shore and they
got caught by the sunlight the Sun came
up and they all turned to stone
whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa
the sneaker waves you feel like the
ocean the waves are coming in way
further down and they actually come in a
big one will come in and they'll take
out your shoes you'll be changing your
clothes
okay
another sneaker wave almost got me so
I've walked much further down because I
want to show you this with the folklore
here but it's also really interesting to
see all these huge boulders that have
fallen down from these cliffs at one
time I mean I don't know how high these
are maybe a hundred and fifty feet or so
just like over where we were before
here's another set of really odd-looking
rocks and they're all smooth if they
look like they'd be sharp but they're
all super super smooth and look when
they're wet
it almost looks like coal
really really amazing
I'm not gonna be able to get over there
the tide is coming back in and it's very
quickly becoming impassable so but at
least I got to see what it looks like
back here pretty cool it's a couple
people hanging out on the rocks
so higher up gives you a little bit more
of a view to the left is what is
supposed to have been the ship the
three-masted ship and to the right is
either one of the trolls or bull I don't
I don't I'm not really sure but that's
what it looks like so this is just an
introduction to Iceland's beautiful
beaches here I think this Beach in the
1990s was voted top ten nicest or most
beautiful non tropical beaches in the
world
so whatever that's worth it's pretty
nice here so getting back on the road
see in the next video thanks for
watching
