Wanderings

Today was a much more relaxed day than the past two. We got up and had a long morning as it was still raining so why not have a bit of a relaxed morning? It really was rainy and windy all night. The rain let up some so we headed off for the day. First stop was to drive back to the end of the road and see what the town Å was all about. It was still pretty rainy there, but it was a nice little walk around.

Then we headed down just past Hamnøy and parked, then walked back across the bridges to just past Sakrisøy to see what we could see. The clouds/fog/rain kept moving in and out. Sometimes everything was white and you couldn’t see the mountains or anything at all! But then would start to clear up and rain off and on and was pretty windy all day. It wasn’t a long walk and we found some fun things - birds nesting on the small bridge, some rock Tripes (thanks Aunt Bunny for the plant identification app tip! I never would have know what they were without it and I’ve been using it a lot :) and lots of waves splashing over the rocks! It was pretty fun. I was so glad we did that big hike yesterday and all morning/early afternoon those mountains were in clouds!

Then we headed on to where we were going to camp, at a trailhead for our hike tomorrow, but it was on the water and SUPER windy, rocking the van around, and supposed to get windier overnight. That was like last night and I didn’t get that much sleep as the wind kept waking me up and it felt like the car would blow over…So we went to spy on parking at a different trailhead on the other side of the mountain for the same hike that is up in the mountains a bit and it is so much better here. A slight wind, warmer, quiet. It’s on a farm with these big mountains all around so they help block the wind a bit (the last photo is here). Should be a better nights sleep! Hopefully tomorrow the clouds aren‘t low so we can see all the things on our hike!Read more