"tankur af síld olíu"

Up in the isolated north coast of Iceland, in an abandoned herring factory we came across these tanks that used to hold herring oil. A view to the past. It was in this ruin we celebrated my 50th birthday. A very memorable day. It is located at the head of Reykjarfjörður on the Strandir coast in the Westfjords region (Vestfirðir), in the municipality of Árneshreppur.

It is approximately 70 km away from Hólmavík (the nearest settlement of any account), 280 km from Ísafjörður and 340 km from the country's capital Reykjavík. At present it only consists of seven houses, a hotel and the ruins of a herring factory. It can be reached by car via road 643 or by plane via the nearby Gjögur Airport. - Wikipedia

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OK, anyone who knows me knows that I'm a dog person... not as cool on cats... but we have a little neighbourhood cat who comes visiting most days. If the door is open she comes in, wanders around, goes upstairs, says hello, then leaves.

Well on Saturday this changed for some reason... she has been coming around for a year or so, and on Saturday she was wandering around whilst Paul and I were on our laptops in the kitchen, and she all of a sudden discovers the fish-tank.

What did she do. She assumed the position, staring at the fish, whilst her tail was whipping back and forth.

Then a few moments later... I noticed the clown loaches (orange and black stripe fish) were eyeing of the cat... the game was on! For the next 30min the big clown loach was swimming up and down the tank and when it couldn't see the cat, it would come up to the edge of the tank and look for the cat. Cat would relocate to where the fish was, tail whipping in increasing frenzy.

Next thing I hear is the cat jumping up and down. I turn around to find this.

She and the clown loach are now playing tag! So I grabbed the V1 and snapped a few shots of this game going on... for the last three nights... she comes to play with her new friend.