The
search for diamonds on this black lava beach in the southwest of
Iceland will be in vain. The ‘diamonds’ that shine brightly in the sun
are fragments of the Breidamerkurjokull, a glacier which reaches
through a lagoon down to the Northern Atlantic Ocean. With the tide,
ice blocks with the size of a house flow from the lagoon into the open
sea where they are crushed by the waves into many smaller pieces. The
flood pushes them back on the coast. At the end remains a black beach,
covered over and over with ice bits of every size, shining like
diamonds in the sun.
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