Drangarnir translates literally as The Sea Stacks. It is two large sea stacks, of which only one can be seen in the image above. The second and smaller stack is hidden by the larger one, which has a large opening in the middle, where a boat can pass through.
I have photographed Drangarnir before and posted the images on a post called Tindhólmur. Tindhólmur is actually the island that can be seen behind Drangarnir in the first image of that post, and I repeat the image below here, so you can orient yourself.
From the left you can see an outcrop of the island of Vágar, then the two sea stacks, Drangarnir and then to the right the small island of Tindhólmur which looks like it has a crenelated medieval fortress on its top (if you have an ounce of fantasy guiding your imagination)
But this time we were going to photograph the sea stacks from nearby. Together with our friends we took a boat from Sørvágur, a village at the end of the fjord, Sørvágsfjørður, which had a very protected harbour, and then we drove out to the sea stacks. Most of my photos are captured from the promontory that you can see in the image above here to the very left. We got ashore near the outer part of the large island. The sea swell made it difficult to jump ashore with camera equipment, but we managed without damaging either cameras or ourselves. It was then a climb up to an altitude of about 100 metres above sea level, where the very first photo here was captured.
The harbour at Sørvágsfjørður, from which we departed to Drangarnir
The sea stack of Drangarnir in the foreground and Tindhólmur in the background to the left of Drangarnir
I have climbed down from the top of the promontory and based myself closer to the sea to capture the opening between the sea stacks and the island of Vágar (where I am standing). As I am looking at the view, a fishing boat passes by in full speed in the sound
Drangarnir captured from the sea on board our little RIB looking into the fjord. Here you can see both sea stacks, Lítli Drangur (small sea stack) to the left, and Stóri Drangur (large sea stack) to the right.
We are driving through the “door” of Stóri Drangur. As you can see, I am not the only one taking photographs.
This last photo in the post was captured in the afternoon looking out from the promontory towards the main island of Vágar with the village of Bøur (see earlier post) just outside the image to the right. But it was the sun rays shining on the basalt rocks at ebb tide that caught my eye.
