Whether things are going good or bad, it’s still an amazing planet.
A couple of images drive this home today.
First, a couple of guys with a quadcopter, have flown it near the Bardabunga volano in Iceland. Experts have been warning it’s going to blow and cloud the European skies with ash.
Beautiful indeed.
So is this, in a frightening sort of way. Thirty-five thousand walruses have hit the shore in Pt. Lay, Alaska.
![Photo: NOAA](./../../../files/2014/10/walruses.jpg)
It’s called a “haulout” and it was discovered earlier this week by an Arctic observation flight by NOAA.
![Photo: NOAA](./../../../files/2014/10/walruses_2.jpg)
There was no mention of why the walruses are on the beach in the NOAA handout with the exception of a notation that no sea ice was found in the area.
Sea ice is at the sixth-lowest level on record, according to The Guardian.