Today was driving around parts of Lofoten that none of us had seen yet. Tomorrow we board an express bus for Narvik, NO, which is even further north and essentially as far north as we get on this trip. But, there is plenty more of Norway north of Narvik for some other time.
Lofoten, like Iceland, has lots of spectacular narrow waterfalls that cascade in complex patterns from near the tops of mountains down to almost sea level. Like in Iceland, they are fed by springtime melting of snow. After seeing a few 100s of such waterfalls, one gets a little jaded about them, but this one caused us to take a photo stop.
Often on Lofoten the scenery requires a panoramic camera, which we do not have. Here is a series of 5 overlapping pictures, each taken with a 28 mm focal-length wide-angle lens, that approximates a panoramic image.
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Sometimes the scenery provides visually striking composites of the same shape of glacially-sculpted mountains.
Barns are sometimes decorated in unexpected ways. this one carries the standard Scandinavian “red building – white trim” to a pair of bird houses. This was also the first time we have seen flattened, dried fish used as decoration.
While Sheila and Lars had visited Henningvær before picking up Jorunn and Roald, they had never been there, so we went back again. This time Lars took some more pictures, of course. Henningvær is one of the prettier fishing villages we have seen, and so of course it is full of tourists.
Here is our pretty flower picture for today. This is a small flower, with the blooms shown being collectively about the size of the tip of one’s little finger. None of us know what it is called.
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