Skrova in the Sunshine

Another beautiful day in the sunshine. Earlier in the week it had been recommend I visit Skrova if I had the chance. It a small set of islands a 30 minute ferry ride from Svolvær. The ferry is free for foot passengers. There weren’t many passengers on board. You can tell it’s definitely between seasons in Lofoten. After the summer visitors and before the winter visitors seeking the northern lights.

Skrova is quite walkable. I downloaded a self guided walking tour which was interesting but did not include the many photo exhibitions on the island. There are various photos taken by different photographers around the island. They were all of life in Skrova/Lofoten except a series on Myanmar which was set on the stockfish frames. That series of photos was sobering and thought provoking.
Then there is a series of photos documenting life on Skrova in the past. The tunnel still has traffic going through it but only vehicle went through while I was there.

Skrova used to be the major fishing village in the area and whaling was also done in the area. Large boats called for fish at Skrova rather than Svolvær as they were concerned about getting shipwrecked coming into Svolvær. Now there is only one fish factory left and that mainly processes farmed fish. The factory has a window so you can watch part of the sorting process.
The factory is right where the ferry docks. I watched a truck back off the ferry right up to the factory loading dock.

There was only one place open for lunch (and that was only open Fri -Sun) and there were two choices for lunch - fish and chips or bacalao which in Norway is tomato based stew with clipfish (dried and salted cod). Clipfish is different from stockfish as stockfish is simply dried coc and clipfish is dried and salted. The stew was nice if a touch salty.Leggi altro