The mountain Vuoddovarre.
The clouds are low during bad weather.
Without clouds.
With clouds.
Jun 082011
May 252006
Today we will take a car ride along the east seashore of the Porsanger Fjord.
Before, in the morning, I went down to the river bank to view the spring flood.
Look, the water level is high!
I will show you our route on the map.
Here is our route in detail.
Now, we are eager to leave.
This was the first thing that happened along the road.
Not an unusual sight in this region.
The reindeers are walking loose in the terrain. Therefore they sometimes dwell on the roads. But in most cases you see them. Their fur is white.
Suddenly we discover a waterfall.
We stop the car. I take many photos.
This photo was the best. exposure time is 1/25 second. Evidently a fine time to bring about motion in the water.
Two oyster-catchers on a stone.
Next sight.
Roddenes nature reserve.
Here is a lot of dolomite gravel which have formed itself into terraces along the seashore.
The gravel of the reserve.
We reach the village of Börselv.
Here the river Börselva meets the sea.
Here we turn left and continue along the coast on a smaller road.
Next surprise.
suddenly the mountains change color.
We have reached the zone of dolomite mountains which streaches itself across the fjord.
The dolomite seems to be porous since it has collapsed.
The village Mårnes lies beautiful by the sea.
The houses are beautiful to.
Same houses from the other side.
We can’t loose sight of those houses.
From another angle.
Further on we pass this farm.
The lonely barn.
Now, we are satisfied.
We turn the car and head for home.
We can see we are home again in Lakselv.
Surely this was an adventure.
One of many during my stay here up in the far north.
May 242006
We travel into the central of Lakselv.
Small communities aren’t always so pretty. But Lakselv is special. The high mountains are visible everywhere when walking in the centre.
You even see a mountain brook from the city main street.
More about the dominance of the mountains.
This was good. I could even zoom in the waterfall from the central city.
Tomorrow we will have a new adventure.
A long car ride along the east coast of the Porsanger Fjord.
What surprises will we meet?
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May 212006
We have talked about going up on the high mountan right beside our house. But I feel it will be to hard. But, just a walk away to the mountain side would be a experience well enough.
So, of we go.
A peculiar thing I’ve wondered about is the waterfall which flow half way down the mountain and then disappear. Where is it going? Maybe we can sort this out if we go closer and take a look.
On our way forward to the mountain we find these last year lingonberries which have spent the winter under the snow. They taste fine.
A mountain birch.
When we turns our heads backwards we see this plane landing on Lakselv airport
Is it possible now to see where to the water flows in the waterfall?
We are closer now.
We can’t go close to it because it’s to dangerous. We can stumble on the loose stones and fall down.
Apparently the water flows down under the stones. And then a long way under the surface and comes up again further down the mountain side. The brook we find below the mountain must be our stream.
Now it’s time to go home. There, down by the river, we live.
Tomorrow we will visit Stabbursdalen National Park. Don’t miss it!
May 192006
Today we went out to take a look on Lakselv. We went to Skoganvarre east of the city.
We met this view of Lakselv and the mountain, the Porsanger fjord and the airport.
May I ask you to scroll the picture to the right?
The spring has come as far as this. A birch.
The airport is a construction wich dominates the city. It has a special story. During world war two the germans had an air base here. 30.000 german soldiers were stationed here in Lakselv.
Here, I’ve tried to capture how the high mountains everywhere reminds us of their presence. Again, the airport.
We found something surprising. The city has a bathing beach with wonderful fine sand.
All the memories from the war marks the city and the inhabitants a lot. When we went up to the mountain to take a look on the city we found this overgrown stair. An old german military camp.
Just beyond the stairs we recognized some scrap in the forest.
When we went closer we found this old rusty gasoline can.
What does the text say? We must to look closer.
“Wehrmacht”. It’s german and means “The Army”
This gasoline can has laid here for 60 years. It has been preserved because metals don’t rust so fast here due to the climate. Could it be, this gasoline can was used when the germans burned the camp? We don’t know. The germans burnt the whole city of Lakselv down. Yes, the whole county they burned when they left the area.
Tomorrow we will travel to Karasjok.
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