So true!!! We were walking around and it was sunny, suddenly we had the strongest wind ever and all became dark, there was a hailstorm and snow started falling. We had to huddle up in a corner 😂 - 20 min later it was sunny again. I LOVED IT!!! Such an amazing place and people.
I was there a couple of years ago and not 20 minutes after we left a Chinese teenager was on the beach that is on the other side of the cave. That beach is even more dangerous than the already dangerous cave side. She was hit by several waves, dragged out to sea, and drown. Do not ignore the signs. Do not ignore your guide. The group with the teenager had a guide who warned them. When you get to the beach my advice is to watch the waves from a safe distance for several minutes. Within 5 to 15 minutes you will see a sneaker and then it will click why they have signs. You've never seen waves like this. You are conditioned to believe all waves are relatively regular and predictable as seen on most beaches. When I was on this beach a couple more things I noticed. 1) the sand is part of why the beach kills. When the water comes over it will turn into quick sand. If you go down from a wave you might still be stable, but trying to push to run away is like running on ice. 2) sneaker waves tend to come in multiples. You get knocked down by one, then another comes, then another, and you just keep getting rolled down the beach until you are in the water 3) volcanic islands without coral meet the water at steep angles. Once you are in the water there is no chance you are getting out because you are looking at a 15+ degree angle. The beach on the other side of the cave has such a rip current after sneakers that the water level drops 5-10 meters below where a calm sea would be. You are in a giant swirling bowl and you cannot get out. The angle might be 45 degrees in the bowl 4) the water is very cold. You get cold shocked while trying to save your life. Saving your life is not happening.
Probably your body would go numb from the cold water(or experience a thermic shock - muscles lock up, if you're not used to it) and you would also expire.
Yes! It looks bad! It looks like the ocean floor dips very low suddenly. This looks extremely dangerous to my eyes. (not surfer, but visiting beached regularly and we have one beach where swimming is prohibited as so many currents and it has a similar look.)
First a few tourist drown, they put up a sign. Then a bunch more drown and they had to install that flashing monstrosity of a sign. Still people continue to drown there taking selfies.
I say good😂 there needs to some sort of weeding out process at some point, and I think they have figured out how to do it to themselves, finally natural selection is real
I have surfed for over 50yrs and I can personally tell everyone that when u are close to waters edge at ANY ocean DO NOT TURN YOUR BACK on it cause it WILL take your life in a second !!!!!! Anywhere, anytime, any conditions!! Stay safe...
But what is the sense? To know which stone to hang onto? If the wave is that strong you will be pulled in anyway, but yeah I get the point to not completely be taken by surprise.
honestly those people should not be sp close to the ocean, an Amber light means you should never have ur back faced those people were being careless going so close, could've easily been swept out by a sneaker wave
I live in the US at one of the most popular summer vacation spots and never turn your back to the ocean is something I stress to my children...the amount of tourists I see letting their toddlers play in the surf out of arms reach is always wild to me...
I'm Icelander - been there so often have no idea how often .... ! I don't remember hearing so many died over there until we had all these turist and more to come ... And now we have to have signs red, yellow & green .... As I like turist and to be a turist - I'm so sad that we are destroying our little beautiful places with signs, coffeshops, turist shops and and and .... But I'm so sad how many turists have died here at our beautiful island only this year ! 😔 Drive carfully and respect the nature please - enjoy 🇮🇸
I think you are helping the place with the coffee shops as with them there are toilets with them. Believe me, with so many tourists - your nature would have been full with napkins and dirt, midly said.
I've been there two weeks ago. That beach has lost its natural and pristine beauty with so much tourists making noise, climbing on the rocks for selfies, so many cars parked everywhere, and the restaurant nearby serving so expensive airport like food. And I don't mention the drones flying around you. Time will come for regulation. It's not Disney land there.
@7krys yes, the cons of tourism. It’s a tough balance. Amazing place and great that people are getting out to explore, but there are costs and maybe it won’t be free access forever
I guess you never been to the Big Island of Hawaii. Black sand beach is pure volcanic sand. And yes, never turn your back on the ocean. Hawaii has some very dangerous beaches and blow holes. Quite a few tourist have drowned here because they don't listen to all the warnings, signs and all. If a local don't do it, then that's saying something.
The boiling pots are super sketchy, but I think people see locals swimming there and assume it’s okay. Or they assume that every body of water around the islands is calm and safe. But the trick is the ocean is always ready to kill you 😅
Ive been to this beach a few times because I live in Reykjavík which is the capital of Iceland. I think it's so pathetic that even with the warning signs the tourist some how seem to almost be trying to get them selves washed away. I understand that they don’t have those sort of waves in their country’s most likely, but at least I’d think it’s general knowledge to stay away from a furious ocean and having even read a warning sign about it on the way. Idk maybe I’m just crazy. Tourist, you tell me
You are not crazy. I started visiting your country in 1993 when there were virtually no tourists. My friends and I climbed down the cliff onto the black beach and although the cliff was a little bit dangerous the beach was awesome. I also remember the blue lagoon with only 1 wooden changing room and since I did not bring a bathing suit, they rented me one for $2 usd. There were only 3 people there at the time and this was December 30th. Is there still a revolving restaurant built on top of the water tank in Reykjavik ? Grindavik was also a cool little town. I love Iceland but now stay away due to too many tourists. Hafa a mikill dagur!
@@rocketleaftherlfreestyler6151 I'm sorry, my comment wasn't clear. The restaurant I am referring to is or was in Reykjavick and it was built on top of a large water tank. It also rotated slowly (360 degrees) so the guests could see a different view during dinner. Very nice place but expensive. As far as the Blue Lagoon, I hear that it is now so popular with tourists, reservations need to be made month's in advance. I love Iceland, I just don't like crowds of tourists and I own a hotel in Cusco Peru near the ruins of Machu Picchu ha ha. Maybe this is why? Some travelers are hard to please. Thanks for your reply.
Watch out and...Oh my gosh? People not following the signs are the sort of people Icelanders do not like to visit their country. They also climb and walk the heaths and glaciers almost barefoot and the rescue people that are not getting paid for it, come and help those twits. Many tourists have also not made it.
I love when American tourists show up and become instant and intense experts on the place they’re visiting. Probably yelled at everyone and told them what to do while they were there…
You don't need to be an expert to know things. It's called educating yourself. 😂We live in the information age bud, not in the dark ages. Just by reading your comment we gained the knowledge that you aren't so bright, without being an expert of your whole life story 🤣
@@obryn i enjoy your arrogance. This will take you to magical and boring places in this realm. The ‘knowledge’ you’ve gained here is merely self satisfaction, and surely fleeting.
Number one rule of fight club…errrrr…ocean beaches, never turn your back on the water. She will beach slap you. That’s how people drown. They don’t see the wave coming, it knocks them, and sucks them out.
Excuse me mam, yellow means caution. Red means the beach is closed and green the beach is open, it’s a calm day… there are no color coded sections of sand where you can go and cannot go.
I’ve been here and watched a group of Japanese tourists nearly get swept out to sea. The difference between the previous set of waves and the sneaker wave was about 50 metres. Very very scary
Adorable: three signs! "Danger. No, really, danger." Flash flash. "What did we say about danger?". (bunch of people half way in the water) These are natural selection spots on Earth. Thank you, mother planet.
the worst thing is that people come there who can't run even 20 meters without getting tired, they stand on the edge staring at their phones like donkeys, not seeing what's going on around them, pathetic, no responsibility and no brains😂
That’s what happens here every year I live on the Oregon coast and we have more tourists dying and having accidents not going home. They don’t pay attention to anything they just get swept away by the beauty.
As an Icelander I find it kind of weird that they call Reynisfjara "Black beach" because I think it makes it sound like it's the only black beach in Iceland, when literally almost all of them are black 😅
Oh, I've been there. Had to run away a little from those waves. There's a narrow part under the cliff down there where you can run if you're fast enough to a further part of the beach, where it becomes quite rocky. Really interesting and inspiring place, something out of this world.
Go to Aksa beach near Mumbai. Many people have died because of shifting sands...It's got so many deaths that people believe it's haunted... black sand go to Devka beach in Daman on India's west coast..sand is black
@michaelaozuka5179 we almost visited the Westfjords, but the weather was rough and we stayed around the Snaefellsness Peninsula around the that time. Would love to visit someday
I answered and said, "If I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, show this also to thy servant: whether after death, as soon as every one of us yields up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come when thou wilt renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented at once?" 76 He answered me and said, "I will show you that also, but do not be associated with those who have shown scorn, nor number yourself among those who are tormented. 77 For you have a treasure of works laid up with the Most High; but it will not be shown to you until the last times. 78 Now, concerning death, the teaching is: When the decisive decree has gone forth from the Most High that a man shall die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, first of all it adores the glory of the Most High. 79 And if it is one of those who have shown scorn and have not kept the way of the Most High, and who have despised his law, and who have hated those who fear the Most High -- 80 such spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall immediately wander about in torments, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways. 81 The first way, because they have scorned the law of the Most High. 82 The second way, because they cannot now make a good repentance that they may live. 83 The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for those who have trusted the covenants of the Most High. 84 The fourth way, they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days. 85 The fifth way, they shall see how the habitations of the others are guarded by angels in profound quiet. 86 The sixth way, they shall see how some of them will pass over into torments. 87 The seventh way, which is worse than all the ways that have been mentioned, because they shall utterly waste away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall wither with fear at seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they sinned while they were alive, and before whom they are to be judged in the last times. 88 "Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from their mortal body. 89 During the time that they lived in it, they laboriously served the Most High, and withstood danger every hour, that they might keep the law of the Lawgiver perfectly. 90 Therefore this is the teaching concerning them: 91 First of all, they shall see with great joy the glory of him who receives them, for they shall have rest in seven orders. 92 The first order, because they have striven with great effort to overcome the evil thought which was formed with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death. 93 The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the unrighteous wander, and the punishment that awaits them. 94 The third order, they see the witness which he who formed them bears concerning them, that while they were alive they kept the law which was given them in trust. 95 The fourth order, they understand the rest which they now enjoy, being gathered into their chambers and guarded by angels in profound quiet, and the glory which awaits them in the last days. 96 The fifth order, they rejoice that they have now escaped what is corruptible, and shall inherit what is to come; and besides they see the straits and toil from which they have been delivered, and the spacious liberty which they are to receive and enjoy in immortality. 97 The sixth order, when it is shown to them how their face is to shine like the sun, and how they are to be made like the light of the stars, being incorruptible from then on. 98 The seventh order, which is greater than all that have been mentioned, because they shall rejoice with boldness, and shall be confident without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom they served in life and from whom they are to receive their reward when glorified. 99 This is the order of the souls of the righteous, as henceforth is announced; and the aforesaid are the ways of torment which those who would not give heed shall suffer hereafter." 100 I answered and said, "Will time therefore be given to the souls, after they have been separated from the bodies, to see what you have described to me?" 101 He said to me, "They shall have freedom for seven days, so that during these seven days they may see the things of which you have been told, and afterwards they shall be gathered in their habitations." 102 I answered and said, "If I have found favor in thy sight, show further to me, thy servant, whether on the day of judgment the righteous will be able to intercede for the unrighteous or to entreat the Most High for them, 103 fathers for sons or sons for parents, brothers for brothers, relatives for their kinsmen, or friends for those who are most dear." 104 He answered me and said, "Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also. The day of judgment is decisive and displays to all the seal of truth. Just as now a father does not send his son, or a son his father, or a master his servant, or a friend his dearest friend, to be ill or sleep or eat or be healed in his stead, 105 so no one shall ever pray for another on that day, neither shall any one lay a burden on another; for then every one shall bear his own righteousness and unrighteousness." .....2 Esdras 7:75 ////////////
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Thanks for showing us. A place, well I didn't know about. Believe it was on the island of Maui. They also have a "Black sand" beach. It's made from black volcanic rock. That been crushed by the ocean, over time. So if you've seen pure black, black rock? That's what the sand is. Like pure black rock, that has been ground up in a mortar/pestal. That black.
I went to Italy and there was a tour guide that was driving us around the amalfi coast and he said “there is beautiful bitches on down that hill” to my family and in that moment I realized that he was saying “beach” not “bitch” me and my family were trying to hold in our laughter for 30 minutes
In my country Philippines esp. in my island we have this black sand. More refined than this one. ❤ Anyways take care and enjoy, wish to come back there again
I'm icelandic. And here is my hot tip for tourists in Iceland: when Icelanders tell you that the current weather or the nature forces at your destination are dangerous, you better understand that this means It's incredibly DANGEROUS. We are used to extreme weather and an unforgiving nature. Don't be dumb and ignore Icelandic people's warnings. If you do, you'll understand the meaning of 'fuck around and find out.'
