Réttir: The annual sheep round-up

This feels strange to write about something which happened in the middle of September but up until recently I haven't had the photos to post here. As I'm sure I've mentioned in one of my many rants about my broken technology (my iPod broke recently too, just to add to the list), my camera's memory card broke during my visit to see the sheep round-up but luckily I had most of my lost photos recovered over the Christmas break.

Réttir happens once a year and is a big event in which the farmers gather all the sheep from the mountains and then divide the sheep up according to which farm they come from. At the event I went to, the sheep are put into one huge central pen, the farmers check their tags and then put them through little doors into separate pens for the different farms. All of the farmers and their families help out and the event turns into a bit of a countryside party. The only sad thing is that there are now almost as many tourists as locals, but considering I added to this problem I don't think I can complain too much.

An event which revolves around sheep doesn't sound that exciting but it was really fun to see the locals working together and watching the sheep who can jump their own height as they run into their pens!

Help from all the family

Jumping as he escapes