Day 22 Andenes to Sellevoll

Day 22, Saturday 3rd of August, Andenes to Sellevoll, 33 km/603 km total
While Friday had been grey and overcast, Saturday was back to normal; sun from a clear sky reflecting from a mirror smooth ocean.
The two main objectives of the day was first to visit the geological locations at Ramså (see separate post) and second to get in a good position to cross Andfjorden to Grytøya tomorrow (Sunday).
We paddled straight to Ramså, had lunch and looked at the geology, and then we set out to find a suitable camp site from where we would have a not too long crossing tomorrow.
We decided to paddle for about two hours southward and then start looking for a place.
That took us just past Dvergberg.
What we found was that it was very shallow waters and it was low tide and a lot exposed rocks from washed out moraine between us and the beach.
What we do in such situations is to look for a boathouse where the beach is often cleared for rocks to allow boats in and out.
That is the upside. The challenge is to find the owner and ask permission. (By the way -except for Emsfors in 2018- we have always gotten permission)
Today Stain was first on shore and tried to find the owner. No one was home in the nearest house, but Stein waved down a passing car and asked if they maybe knew who owned the boathouse.
They did (Andøya is small community ca 4500 people) and a couple of sms later we had permission.
It wasn’t a long paddle, but with the extended lunch and time spent finding a good campsite it was close to midnight before we were ready to close the sippers in the tents to keep the mosquitoes and gnats out for the night.
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