Vik, Iceland

On our last day we drove along the southwestern coast of Iceland to Vik, famous for its black volcanic sand.

Just west of Vik is Dyrhólaey,a small peninsula with views of black lava columns rising from sea. It was an overcast afternoon, and with the black sand a number of these photos look like I was shooting black & white, but are actually in full color.

Along the way we stopped at a farm that was one of the many areas affected by the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which created an ash cloud that affected air traffic in Europe for weeks. More importantly, it almost finished off Walter Mitty.  The volcano covers a massive area, part of which can be seen under the gray clouds in the farm pictures.
 

There were waterfalls, of course. Please to enjoy Seljalandsfoss:

And, not to be outdone, Skogafoss:

Finally, the drive home brought more cloud porn. The sky put on quite a show for us that evening.