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Thay had whale tours up there but I did my whale watching from the ferrys. We soon discovered that alot of sign there were wrong or misplaced so the whale tours might not have been there at all... I didn't see any boats suitible for taking tourists other than the ferry after all. sweatdrop


This is a map of the area, we went from the bottom of the map out to sea to the left. The ferry took over 2 hours before we got to Svolvaer on Lofoten.


The ferry comming in with the front already up, it didn't look as big as it was. It had to decks for cars, a saloon with chairs and resurant and on top of that a sun deck.


It's comming to eat me! Omnomnomn... ok, moving on to the next... emotion_omnomnom


Leaving the dock with the ferry and admiring the surrounding mountains. Whenever my fiance found the view extra spectacular I was forced to listen to the Skyrim theme song... the joke got old after a few days. rolleyes


We passed by a small town with a few hundred inhabitants on a small island in the bay and it looked like something out of a storybook but having to take a ferry to work and school everyday and living that far north out on the sea don't sound like anything for me. emotion_sweatdrop


I stood on deck for an hour before I finally caught a glimps of a whale, just a small one, a harbour Porpise was swimming in front of the ferry, jumped up once and back down again. Next time two came up and I almost threw my phone over the railing trying to get into photo mode. They were too close to the boat so I ran in and told the rest of the family there were "tumlare" (called that in swedish) in front of the ferry. They all came running but the Norweigans stayed were they were. After I remembered that they call them "marsvin" but in swedish that's a guinnea pig... Yeah so back out again I scanned the water for them but the ferry turned right and they ended up left of the boat. That little greyish spot right in front of the little island is a Porpoise but it might as well be a rock on this pic so a description is in order, they look alot like irrawaddy dolphins but a little fater, about 3 feet tall.


Random bridge right before we got of the Ferry on Lofoten. The name means lynxfoot. cat_3nodding


Arriving in Svolvaer for 3 hours sightseeing. ^^


The church in Svolvaer and a memorial stone for the soldiers from the town that died in world war II. Norway have always been a bit unlucky when it comes to having their country for themselves. For almost 600 years Norway belonged to Denmark and later Sweden, declared itself independent in 1905 and 35 years later the germans invaded... well, atleast that didn't last.


The harbour on the other side of town. It just started raining when i took this picture and we started making our way back through the town to the ferry.


A Noweigan troll. Remember that when you meet a troll from Norway online, they look like this! emotion_jawdrop

We had planned to walk up the Hamsun Mountain but the clouds wouldn't give in so we decided on the ridge behind the house instead. Getting trapped in of those clouds up on the mountain wasn't something I wanted to risk so it suited me just fine. The picture is taken half way up the ridge just before midnight, it never got much darker than this anyway. emotion_yatta


The Hamsun Mountain seen from the top ot the ridge with a cloud resting on the top. The walk up was intense, at some point we jumped over cliffs and the ground was slippery and wet. My finaces dad fell of one rock but the ground is covered in thick soft plants between the rocks so it wasn't worse than him getting a bit wet. It was a pretty high fall though but after he stood up and left a hole in the plants the shape of his body like in a cartoon some hysterical laughter followed.


We went to the harbour the next day, they had something called the Norway days there. The boat on the picture is an old fishing boat but it's been turned into a resturant and isn't actually in the water.


Dried fish, they eat it like snacks in norway... this one was just a display though, not that I'd be surprised if someone intented to eat that. emotion_eyebrow


The Hamsun Gallery close to the harbour, just a small display and a small gallery... nice and cozy though. ^^


The sea behind the gallery and a starfish statue.


The water was crystal clear and ice cold, despite that we saw a few people bathing when parked the car.


The lighthouse near the harbour have a resturant and we though it seemed like a nice place for dinner, it didn't turn out that way, they had closed the resturant of for a conference and after a look on the menue we decided not to wait until that was over and go home and make dinner ourselves. (Again with the dried fish and whale stew on top of that, even if it's tasty I don't feel like eating whale) Our two vegitarians in the group lucked out as usual, we never found a resturant with a vegetarian dish during our stay, except a pizza place but it's not hard to not put meat on a pizza. dramallama


A family of some type of ducklike bird swam around by the shore when we walked over the bridge to the lighthouse.


When we walked back still hungry they had fallen below the bridge. I never did see many animals in Norway, I saw more animals on the busride home from the airport than I did the entire week in Norway. surprised


The dog probably had the most fun... here very tired from a day of fun and the lake water kept him clean and his fur silky soft! xd


Last day and time to go home I finally saw and animal of larger size in Norway. (On land anyway) A moose standing on the side of the road. Her brother was standing a bit to the right but I didn't get a good angle from the car to get both of them on camera. His antlers we're so small so they were probably last years calfs that're still sticking together after their mother left them, in a month or so they wont. mating season and hunting season will make sure of thet. confused


After that I was back in Sweden on my way to the airport and back home again my furry little friend had missed me! cat_razz