So now that summer has eventually found us and we have managed to get several days of consecutive sunshine, it appears that all the flowers on the reserve have decided it is probably worth a short demonstration of their beauty.
With this in mind we have been carrying out some basic vegetation surveys on the reserve to try and establish a base line that can then be further investigated by students with more botanical knowledge than we have.
Izzy and I have also managed a trip away again (at Oli´s insistence so that we do not "burn out") and have visited Husey a couple of hours drive north of Skálanes. Husey is an HI Youth Hostel set in the middle of the flood plain of one of the Icelandic glaciers. It is an amazing place with some beautiful wildlife. Seals, Great Skua, Arctic Skua, Arctic Tern and more Red-throated Divers than you can shake a stick at!
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| Seal at Husey |
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| Great Skua |
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| Chantel & I looking at Insects |
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| Izzy working on a vegetation transect |
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