Category Archives: slag-banks

The ‘lava flows’ of Harrington

Posted on July 31, 2025 by solwayshorewalker

As I write this, the twelfth eruption in four years of lava and magma is occurring on the Reykjanes peninsula in the South-West corner of Iceland. Webcams, aerial videos from drones, and photographs capture the flows and colours and forms … Continue reading →

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The Walls of Parton

Posted on March 22, 2016 by solwayshorewalker

‘Are you looking for the old port?’ The man seemed to have appeared from nowhere, yet he was tall and strongly built, white hair sticking up straight, not easy to overlook. ‘Port?’ I was bemused – I’d been poking at … Continue reading →

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The volcanoes of Workington

Posted on July 16, 2015 by solwayshorewalker

The colours of pebbles on the shore range from grey and ochre through green to blue, and the eroded cliff is banded orange and purple and red, like a section through an old volcano. Pebbles are bubbled with cavities, though … Continue reading →

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