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Iceland: All the Photos

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Photography by Jean McConochie
Editing by Dave Werner
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How to catch a puffin. Looking down from Ingolfshofdi. Many an unlucky ship mistook the black sands for open water. At the edge of the cliff, an Arctic skua. Some 300,000 puffins live in this colony. Aside from skuas, there are no predators, so the puffins are fearless.
Puffins dig their burrows 1.5 meters deep on the cliff edge and return to the same one each year. Puffin pastorale. Arctic skuas ferociously protect their young. Ingolfshofdi Lighthouse. Ingolfshofdi Lighthouse.
Lighthouse on Ingolfshofdi headland. Arctic skua parent and chicks. Weary hikers returning to the farm wagon. In Jokulsarlon lagoon, icebergs calved from the southern edge of Vatnajokull icecap. Amphibious vehicle – LARC – used for “sailing” the lagoon.
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Dave Techentin 29-Nov-2006 06:02
Jean,
Thanks for the photo-tour. We've never been to Iceland so seeing your photos was a treat.
All is going well out here on the left coast. We just got back from the Pacific northwest and are heading out tomorrow on an RV caravan. We'll have two foreign students till Christmas and then we head to Death Valley for a week or two.

Dave & Laura Techentin
Guest 13-Aug-2006 13:55
UP THE PUFFINS!!! UP THE COWS!!! This really looks NORTHERN. Thanks for taking pictures of ordinary things as well as extraordinary (that's all relative, isn't it!) Lise
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