Natalia Bay on Urup Island...

was the site of our morning landing, still in pretty wretched weather, with large fragments of an old Russian tug rusting away on the sandy beach:

The bay seems to be eroded into an old cinder cone complex. This outcrop shows a stratified mix of blocks of basalt, pumice and finer tephra:

Perhaps this rainbow that appeared at the time of our departure is a harbinger of better weather ahead: