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Autumn Colours

The beginning of October, and the first snow is yet to arrive in eastern Iceland.

The forecast is for a lovely day, so we set out ear

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Autumn Colours

The beginning of October, and the first snow is yet to arrive in eastern Iceland.

The forecast is for a lovely day, so we set out early for somewhere we'd never visited before. An immense canyon, revealed by the diversion and reduction of a river, filled filled from bank to bed with "stuðlar" - basalt columns.

With its banks heavily wooded and clothed in the colours of autumn, this is Stuðlagil canyon.

A colour photo of a landscape of rolling hills with a deep river gorge and footpaths snaking through it. The river banks end abruptly in a steep drop, closer inspection shows the regular structures of hexagonal columnar jointing. Some parts of the surrounding hills have been cleared for agriculture, probably for winter fodder, but many have been left in a natural state or have been replanted with trees to provide soil stability. In one field on the right, sheep can be seen grazing. The whole scene is in a palette of primarily russet, yellow, and orange tones with some green.

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