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'Ode to an Oosik'

husavik morning viewWednesday 20 July, Husavik

We got ourselves organised over hot chocolate with cream in the sun. Not a bad start of our day in Husavik!
With the sailing festival, there are lots of activities going on and we get to see a fantastic photo exhibition 'The Last Days of the Arctic' (have a look at www.rax.is). It is a prelude of the rest of the day, which is spent visiting a variety of musea: the cultural centre with another great photo exhibition, a fantastic display of life in Iceland over the last 150 years including lots of stuffed local animals and authentic every day items and a small but very interesting Maritime Museum; the Whale museum; and last but not least, the Phallological Museum of Husavik. Yes indeed dear, that would be a Penis Museum in more common terms!
An unusual but funny and educational (really!) display, including an overview of sizes in the animal world. Sorry guys, man really have the smallest ones, quite insignificant compared to the whale ones!
I will end this blog with a great poem, the 'Ode to an Oosik!' to give you a small look into this unusual museum.

Not before I mention our great evening activity though: a visit to the nature hot baths of Myvatn! They are quite different from the more swimming pool like hot pools in Akureyri (which are naturally heated as well): it is a big natural pool in the lava rocks, which is heated through thermo-geological heat! It does mean that some spots are a lot hotter than others and you have to make sure not to get cooked too much!
A great way of relaxing and loosening up the old muscles and a fantastic end to a fantastic day!


ODE TO AN OOSIK

Strange things have been done in the Midnight Sun
and the story books are full,
But the strangest tale concerns the male
magnificent walrus bull!

I know it's rude, quite common and crude,
perhaps it is grossly unkind;
But with first glance at least, this bewhiskered beast,
is as ugly in front as behind.

Look once again, take a second look - then
you'll see he's not ugly or vile -
There's a hint of a grin, in that blubbery chin -
and the eyes have a sly secret smile.

How can this be, this clandestine glee
that exudes from the walrus like music?
He knows, there inside, beneath blubber and hide
lies a splendid contrivance - the Oosik!

"Oosik" you say - and quite well you may,
I'll explain if you keep it between us,
in the simplest truth, though rather uncouth,
Oosik is, in fact, his penis!

Now the size alone of this walrus bone,
would indeed arouse envious thinking -
it is also a fact, documented and backed,
There is never a softening or shrinking!

This, then, is why the smile is so sly,
the walrus is rightfully proud.
Though the climate is frigid, the walrus is rigid,
Pray, why, is not man so endowed?

Added to this, is a smile you might miss -
Though the bull is entitled to bow -
The one to out-smile our bull by a mile
is the satisfied walrus cow!

(by: Unknown)
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