Starting from Alta. Highway E-6 for a while, then an excursion to Straumnes, where there is much snow to be found. Then onwards to the inevitable Tjeldsund bridge.
A fishing boat, under completely overcast skies. The buoy is red, and everything else really is that gray.
A frozen waterfall at Kafjorden.
A boat in Finnsnes Harbor.
And, just to prevent the stressful effects of suspense, here’s a photo of the Tjeldsund bridge.
We start just west of Alta.
Early Sunday morning. Extremely overcast.
Too much fun with fishing boats!
“State Highway Department: building a new E-6, next 8 kilometers”. The old one got knocked off by a landslide! Life at 70 degrees latitude, everybody.
Those super-neon signs sure do show up nicely in the murk.
Everything is grim, including the half-plowed downhill roads. Hooray for snow tires.
In the distance, the sky is actually clearing up.
The village of Badderen.
Distant mountains, inevitable snow clouds.
The road to Skjervøy.
mmm… pointy!
Something gives me the idea that this place does a lot of fishing.
We’re almost back at Nordkjosbotn. Well ahead of schedule. Good to know; that means we can explore some more of the outer islands!
Highway E-6, on the south side of Kafjorden.
You’d imagine rural Norwegians would have better things to worry about than fad diets. You’d be wrong.
Snow clouds are everpresent.
“Hey Elmer, you’ve got something stuck in your teeth!”
Partly cloudy. Totally grim. Norway in a nutshell.
“MIT Fablab”, in Norwegian, means just what you think it means; MIT Fabrication Laboratory. I looked it up. They really do have an outpost, here in Lyngen, Norway.
The suspension bridge at Straumnes, on the island of Senja. Yep, it got dark. It does that from time to time.
Here’s one that is somewhat more illuminated. This is the bridge at Finnsnes, that connects to the island of Senja. This style of bridge is what Norway has preferred since the 1970s or so. It’s simple and it works.
Finnsnes. This is a two-minute exposure, which is why things look very, very bright.
What’s wrong with this picture? The arrow is pointing to the right, while the road curves to the left. It’s a 180 degree hairpin turn: the rightward arrow serves traffic coming in the other direction!
This is all we’ll see of the northern lights tonight. It is far too overcast, but it’s they are around just about every night.
One more. This one is a pretty bright flare, but there are surely a lot of clouds in the way.
As good a time as any to call it a day. Next up, day 6: the last day before we head back to the airport.
