It is good that a person should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3: 26
We crossed the Norwegian sea
It was nearing midnight as we drove the 9km on the E10 scenic route Moskenes to Reine. With the hefty, black rocks making a safe break and the carefully placed stacks for drying fish, we parked with others and slept. It was interesting to see car- roof top tents and wild flowers blooming on a heap.
It remained wet, but with the loud squaks of seagulls, we enjoyed the museum fishing village of A. Here are a few things that caught my eye.
Loften is an archipelago and a district of Nordland Norway.
Loften Beach Camp.
Plants, especially the dandelions and wild flowers, grow rapidly with 24 hours of light.
It was a pleasure to meet an ornithologist putting up signs to show where birds were breeding. We asked him about two birds diving and fighting in the sky. This is what he told us. Two pairs of Arctic Skua returned each year, and these were deliberately chasing other seabirds until they disgorged their food. (Kleptoparasitism- animals that deliberately take the food of others.) We saw them busy at it.
He, the Ornithologist, was very fond of these dark seabirds with pointed wings, pale at the tips. He said this about these acrobatic birds as we watched:
long-lived birds from 15 to 30 years
the longest migrations known in the animal kingdom, they have summer here and travel to the antarctic for summer there.(Recent studies have shown an average annual round-trip length of about 10,900 km. I found this out.)
They nest every one to three years, and the boards under his arms were telling people how to protect such birds. Some farmers had cut their grass already, leading to the death of many baby birds.
He and his mountaineering wife, who was also a painter, had waited two years to get a house in the area. Families still live in groups and homes, I guess, go to family. We have only seen one for sale sign so far.
Our parking at this particular beach with other campers was along the road with our door opening onto the beach. A pleasant stay as the road petred out within 5 miles.
We have been travelling while I was doing this post, so it was a challenge.
Take care,
Sandy 🙂
Ps
Hope is like the sun, which as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles