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Chicken Marbella
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Common gallinules.
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Pacific golden plover
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Red-billed Leiothrix
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Red-billed Leothrix, juvenile?
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Red-billed Leothrix
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White-rumped shama.
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NYPD Blue.
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Blue skies this morning over the Reynisdrangar formations and the lovely town of Vik i Myrdal.
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Jökulsarlón glacier lagoon. These icebergs have calved off the Vatnajökull glacier, and the ice is 1,000 years old. The blue color is an optical illusion. A small piece off one of these is perfectly clear. We got an early start this morning to take a tour
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"I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"
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Don't fence me in or rain on my parade.
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As we're pulling into our hotel 6 miles north of Höfn, we spotted two caribou grazing in the field. Behind the hotel are two arms of the Vatnajökull glacier. Not a bad view.
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Atlantic puffin alert!
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Lindarbakki, a sod house in Bakkagerdi, which sits at the end of a road. The only way out is back whence we came.
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Wee elf houses by the shore next to our lodgings for the night, Alfheimar, which means "elf land."
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So I met this guy and fed him an apple yesterday.
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The farmhouse at Höfdi.
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At Höfdi yesterday, a stroll through a birch and pine forest led to this.
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King of the Tuft, my Jock, at Höfdi at Lake Myvatn. 💙❤️💙
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Hér hvilir ("Here lies") Stefán Stefánsson, 1963-1980. Beautiful grave marker at Reykjahlid Church.
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The Helm of Awe: An ancient Icelandic magical symbol that is said to offer powerful protection against evil in general and the anger and abuse of chieftains in particular. "I cast out the hatred / Of my foes / And rich men's fury / Likewise goes." I think
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I discovered an elf in Iceland! More than half of Icelanders believe in huldufolk, or elves.
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Same artist as the elephant and baby…
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Baby, elephant.
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Mama ewe and her twins.
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On the Snæfellsness peninsula.
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Halló!
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Flying over the southernmost tip of Greenland at daybreak. Hard to believe anyone survives in this frozen land. #nofilter
