June 11 - Eidfjord
We sailed up Eidfjord overnight and were anchored at the town of Eidfjord before breakfast. There is also an Upper Eidfjord. Not very imaginative in their place names here in Norway.
Apparently paved roads are a relatively new thing in Norway, at least western Norway. They were mostly built in the 70s. In Eidfjord, before the road and a tunnel through the mountain, the way to get from Upper Eidfjord to lower was by water. In the winter you can walk on it; in the summer you can take a boat. In the spring, hower, they were losing schoolchildren, so in the 60s they petitioned the government to build a road.
From the ship, we could see clouds sitting up on top of the mountains. Our bus tour excursion drove us up into them, where we could see nothing (including the road, which was a bit frightening).
At our second stop, we drove out of the clouds to Halne. There are no trees up this high and the flora and fauna are arctic. Note: dandelions grow everywhere.
Some pics:
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| Root cellar? Note the sod roof. |
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| Tent beside cabins for rent at Halne. |
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| The view |
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Snow in June. This is how glaciers start.
My foot in the frame for scale. |
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| How to get around. Your 4-wheeler has nothing on this. |
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| Halne Lake. |
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| More of the view at Halne |
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| The road we came up. |
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| More road and some of Bear's hair. |
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