continued… We walked down the path towards the ocean.
According to the sign, Dyrhólaey was believed to have formed 80,000 years ago in a submarine eruption, and was originally a separate island. Over the millennia, the sea level has reduced. The lowering sea level exposed the land between the Dyrhólaey and the main land, so now it was a promontory (we had to look that word up, too. It meant a high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water). It was 120-meters tall. Here was a shot of the ridge of silt built up in the water. Note the line of cars on the left that were waiting for someone to leave so they could enter the parking lot.
