Lots of delicious shrimps and mayonnaise
Today's Dinner - shrimps and mayo, white bread, lettice and a twist of lemon... Yummie!
Night-time superpanorama
This superpanorama was shot using a 1 second delay on my Canon IXUS 850IS at 01:30 am overlooking the Ofoten Fjord (click a couple of times in slow succesion to se full resolution).
There is nothing wrong with the camera. The lights from the docked ship is skewed for real. When high or low tides set in the water curves in the narrow sound and any reflecting light is skewed.
21 degrees C – sunny and lovely
Today’s Weather Report: easy living!
Today's Weather Report: easy living!
Beautiful mountains and a tree species from 10 000 years ago!
From left to right: Teppekiltinden (665 m), Buskardet, Rundtinden (798 m), Valletindan and Breiskardtinden (883 m) with Efjord in the foreground. To the right is a Norwegian-Russian Scotts Pine (Pinus sylvestris) - a species of trees that has been here since the last ice age about 10.000 years ago.
What is this!? (Delicious!)
Delicious traditional North-Norwegian summer-meal fresh pollock (saithe) - It tastes heavenly! Extremely rich in proteins, healthy brown fat and minerals! This particular meal was just a few hours from the fjord to the dinner table! Fresh as it gets ;o)
...and delicately prepared pollock liver - and NO! It's got nothing to do with horrid cod liver oil...!
Sunset seen from Vidrek yesterday
On the way back home from Efjord yesterday this beautiful scene unfolded - view from Vidrek towards Bøstrand and Kjeldebotn with Risøya island in the front to the left
Wide Panorama – Efjord yesterday
Efjord by the Efjord Bridges - Wide Panorama - Click on the photo for "The BIG Picture"
Efjord last night
Efjorden south of Narvik - Mountains from the left Stortinden (710 m, 809 m, 847 m), Vindskardet (646 m), Rundtinden (798 m), Teppekiltinden (665m)
Sunset on the Ofoten Fjord
Taken last night:
Panorama from the Ofoten Fjord 16. July 2011 (Click for full image)
Northern Lights and a moonlit Night
Romantic scenery panorama
Please CLICK on the picture to see it in full resolution. Northern light (aurora borrealis) with moon shining on the mountains in the background
Watching the “Sky Fire” while fetching some Fire Wood
Great Northern Lights Show Yesterday above Narvik (please click the picture for highest resolution)
Northern Lights Above the City and the clouds to the right in the picture (please click the picture for highest resolution)
-22 degrees and a Great Show
I stood out in the cold -22° Celcius (-7.6° F) for nearly a couple of hours trying to get a picture of the meteor shower – The Quadrantids. The sky was filled with them but my pocket camera – a Canon IXUS 850IS simply doesn’t have the lens nor chip to catch these really fast specs of light as they flash across the sky in the fraction of a second. But it was a very nice spectacle though.
Meteor Shower and Solar Eclipse and Great Northern Lights Show!
Well, we are way north of the Arctic Circle, so the second biggest solar eclipse in Norway since 1954 won’t be visible here, but further south it will probably be a great show tomorrow!
Furthermore, the Earth is now passing the meteor shower, The Quadrantides, so step outside and watch for shooting stars! This site has advice for when to watch.
And finally, it has been a great night for watching the Northern Lights!
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