Varanger NSR Day 2.1

Today we woke up to light rain and windy! But we parked well last night and the wind wasn’t hitting the van which was nice. There was a built up grassy area we parked next to and I didn’t think that would be enough to stop the wind since we could see over it, but it did! You could hear it, but not feel it rocking the van! I don’t know how long it was windy but the forecast was to start in the early morning so it was nice it didn’t wake us up :)

By the time we got out of bed it wasn’t raining any more, just the wind, which was great for us. Like I don’t love strong wind, but we can wander in that for a bit. I don’t love light rain, but we can wander in that for a bit. Bit windy and rain? That is just miserable and that would be stay in the car weather for me! So we got really lucky that the rain stopped!

Then we started our drive back along the national scenic route. My friend wrote me the temp in Berlin as it was really cold and it was colder than here!! Though it got way warmer there through the day, here it went from 9-11C. Still strange it was colder there this morning!

Today I was like I am going to get better pictures of driving through the rocks!! And I think I did. Still not the same as driving through, but much better! Though I was going through my photos and I was like I’m picking different mountains to post, but they all look the same! It looks like only photos from one place even though they are all different spots!

Our first stop on the way back was Sandfjordneset beach which was really nice. It had a lot of parabolic sand dunes which the sign said are rare for the area. And lots of gulls on the beach.

Then we headed off to continue our drive through the rocks. It really is a gorgeous drive!Read more