Another picture from a photos from above showing the area of the two villages Reine and Hamnøy.
We leave our rorbu...
...and drive further southwards on the E10...
... to Tind (on the picture Tind from above), 1,2 km away from Lofoten's most southern point Å.
Tind is for me and us from Terra Nova and all Haman Group a special place: our big boss Anette just recently bought our company own rorbu. Normally rorbuer are not for sale, but she had the rare occasion of getting hold of one and bought it immediately.
She announced her acquisition to us only shortly before my trip up here, so I was the first of the colleagues to actually see and visit our rorbu.
It is still "under construction", or better, Anette is at the moment renovating it. The took everything out and will refurbish it soon. So here our own rorbu, Haman Rorbu.
After the visit we drive to Å, last village on the Lofoten.
The village is actually a museum by itself, it's the Norsk Fiskeværmuseum, showing the life in a fishing village and the Lofoten fishery over the past 200 years.
Next to the Å Rorbuer...
...even a youth hostel can be found in this little place.
In the early afternoon, our time on the Lofoten is over. We head to Moskenes...
... where we take the Torghatten Nord ferry back to the mainland.
Goodbye Lofoten!
3 hours later the boat arrives in Bodø.
But before checking in to our hotel, we drive to Straumen, 30km away from Bodø, hoping to see the strongest tidal current in the world, the Salstraumen. Up to 400 million m³ (tonnes) of seawater forces its way through a 3 km long and 150 m wide strait every six hours, with water speeds reaching 22 knots (about 40 km/h). Vortices known as whirlpools or maelstroms up to 10 m in diameter and 5 m in depth are formed when the current is at its strongest. When the current turns, there is a period when the sound is navigable. At these times the current is almost calm... and that was, unfortunately, exactly the time of the day when we arrived there. So there was basically nothing to see when we came. What a pity. Maybe another time!
Back in town we stroll through the city...
... and get back to our hotel for the night.
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