Dawn indeed came gradually with a growing noise of wind, and the purple sea began to boil about the dark volcanic cliffs.
A series of strikingly high volcanic cliffs rise before you.
There I swam in clear, cool water in the shadow of a volcanic cliff.
This is usually a perennial plant found growing in rocky areas such as volcanic cliffs and scree.
Or that climbing naked up a volcanic cliff does bad things to long scarlet fingernails.
Because the island is almost entirely surrounded by vertiginous volcanic cliffs, I hadn't really expected watersports.
Its most striking features are huge volcanic cliffs which drop down to steep slopes of scree beneath.
On either side of us, volcanic cliffs rise in shadowy folds.
By the time the island's pink volcanic cliffs were at our backs, the ocean had turned cobalt.
It reflected only the crater wall and the landscape beyond the area where the volcanic cliffs had fallen.