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Old Aug 8, 2016, 8:22 pm
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kaszeta
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Grantham, NH
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The fun thing about Faroese sheep is that since they have zero natural predators, they are pretty mellow about people. Here, this sheep is checking out why the other photographer is lying down looking over the cliff at the puffins:



From that spot, the lighthouse was getting pretty close:



What's nominally one island is actually two: Mykines and Mykinesholmur, separated by a sharp cleft that's about 200' tall:





Luckily, there's a bridge (an enclosed one, since the previous bridge was the source of about a third of the names on the memorial):



Again, as I approached the ridge above the bridge, got another of those brief moments of direct sun:



And then noticed that the puffins were swarming again. Pretty much every speck here is a puffin:

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