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Guruinn


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Camera: Olympus E-510
Lens: Olympus 14-42mm f.3.5-5.6 ED Zuiko Digital Zoom
Location: Gardur, Iceland
Date: Jun 11, 2011
Aperture: 22.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1000
Date Uploaded: Jun 12, 2011

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 The old lighthouse at Garðsskagi in background. The foreground is a golf ball perched on the grass bank at the beach. Talk about a sand bunker!

From Wikipedia:

Garður is a municipality located in southwestern Iceland, bordered by the Faxaflói Bay on the Reykjanes peninsula.

As of December 1, 2007, Garður had a total population of 1,451. The village Gardur, which means "fence" or "wall", was named after one of the many earthen walls once erected on the boundaries between local properties.

The rich fishing grounds by the shore remain the town's economic base. A great deal of fishing was carried out here in earlier centuries, and there are relics to be found along the shore. Garður remains a strong fishing center with fish processing firms.

Garður is also known for its lighthouses. The old Garðskagi Lighthouse was built in 1897 and was used until recently as a centre for studying the thousands of migrating birds which arrive there from Greenland and North America every year to breed on the surrounding shore.

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 06/24/2011 01:46:53 AM
That must be a challenging golf course. Interesting story about the locale.
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 06/22/2011 10:28:54 AM
Nice PoV. The ball makes the lighthouse even more interesting.
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