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Icelandic Traffic Light

Your life can depend on a cairn.

To the east the road to the south goes around Strutsfoss (the falls in the distance) and over the glacier. To the west …

… the highway goes up over the glacier. The cairn marks this bridge:

You’ll be needing it.

Icelandic Birds: a Complex Ecosystem

Sure, a ptarmigan on the Selá, Christmas dinner, easy to identify.

And an elf bird in its nest in the hraun, not Christmas dinner, easy enough.

But a cairn in the Villingadalur, that looks like an elvish bird, tricky.

Yet, it’s by it that you find your way through elf country to Christmas dinner.