Saturday, January 31, 2009

Spout Hike

The Spout is created as a small brook runs down a fracture in the rock leading to a submarine cave. Wave action pushes water in and out of this cave, as waves enter the cave they act like a piston and force air and brook water out through the fractures. In the summer this is a pretty impressive feature. In the winter the fresh water freezes forming a large cone, here we estimated that it is standing about 20 feet above the rock on which it stands.
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2 comments:

Neil said...

I look scared. Ok, maybe I was. A little.

Irene del Mar said...

This photo is incredible. Here, in Spain these landscapes do not meet great.