Day 14 Ramberg to Mjåstad

Day 14/Friday 26th of July. Ramberg to Mjåstad. 37 km/392 km total. Start 1230 arrive 2200
A late dinner makes for a late start but conditions were perfect with sun and light tailwinds so we were hoping to make good progress anyways and at least get to Unstad.
After having paddled for 15 minutes we saw a man waving at us from shore: “Anyone there named Stein?” He shouted.
It turned out to be a friend of a neighbor or the neighbor of a friend. It is not not possible to keep track of the provenance of all Stein’s friends and acquaintances…, they keep showing up in unlikely places.
After a short chat we paddled on.
We lunched at Utakleiv, a place Stein also visited with Per Wilhelm Johnsen in 1998. Then a dominated by agriculture, it’s still is well run fields, but now also with a twenty or so campervans and a few tents. And a set of simple camping facilities built by the community.
Onward we paddled past Unstad beach hoping to find a nice landing near Eggum.
No luck, we only found a very bead landing.
Paddling on we came to Mjåstad, A very nice sandy beach, with a very clear sign: No camping.
We got a tip that it might be possible to camp closer to the new harbour. It turned out the nice “no camping” beach was the old harbour, which was buried in sand after a new break water was built…
In the end we found a very good spot to camp near the new harbour.
We also met another Argentinian paddling guide taking twenty or so paddlers out for a midnight paddle.
That reminded us it was about time to make dinner.
Tomorrow (Saturday) we aim for Laukvik.Read more