First stop--sunset, maybe 2 pm? so beautiful. see the church?
First night with Aurora
3 cormorants admire the view.... The Lofoten Islands are north of the Arctic circle and are comprised of bays, fjords, mountains and yes, some fertile farmland. The islands themselves are actually the eroded tops of partially submerged mountains. I swear every direction we looked there were mountains, and we often saw the water surrounding them. While in the Arctic CIrcle, Lofoten benefits from the gulf stream and so it doesn't get severely cold there...usually. Unfortunately for the group that followed us the week after we were there, Lofoten was slammed by Storm Ingunn which had winds equivalent to a level one hurricane.
Part of the Fredvang Bridge leading towards Volandstind Mountain (aka Gandalf's hat)
2 of our group looking at the highway bridge and mountains (iphone pano)
Where we stayed
taken with my iphone!
we were fortunate to see them on a few nights
that's me in the red jacket
And on our last day...Henningsvær. An absolutely beautiful fishing village, very zen, i definitely could live there...
last day, stunning sunrise
See following photo--this is where the "Kraken" "existed"
see prior photo--the Kraken
Harvested urchins--will be turned into lightshades
some artsy stuff
fishing village
traditional fishing village
The icicles!
scarecrow on fish drying racks. one of the very few scrarecrows we saw
