Djupalonssandur Beach

Djúpalónssandur is a small black-pebble cove on the western tip of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, inside Snæfellsjökull National Park below the glacier. A path drops through jagged lava to a beach of dark, wave-smoothed stones, with sea stacks and arches offshore. Four old lifting stones, once used to test fishermen, and the twisted iron of the British trawler Epine, wrecked in 1948, still lie on the shore. The surf is strong and the setting bleak.