Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Valkommen til Norge

As soon as we crossed the Ivalajoki River into Norway we could tell the difference.



Wide  vistas rather than views of  trees broken by a lake now and then , mountains, people congregated into small villages rather than in separate holdings in the woods.  Everything a lot neater looking in general.



Bags of real ice in the grocery store rather than plastic ice packs with a return policy for newly refrozen ones that we never really figured out.

We followed the Ivalojoki north , except now its called the Avaaljokl, to Vanagerfjord and camped at a fishing village called Vestre Jakobselv .



Our campsite is full of fishermen here to fish for salmon.

After setting up our tent we drove down to the river and hiked along the shore.  It looked like the whole town was out to watch the fisherman, but it turned out they were collecting yellow rubber ducks that had been dropped in the river for a fundraising duck race.

Bird of the Day:  Arctic Skua chasing the gulls to steal their food.

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