There are some certainties about being on Lofoten in winter - the manufacturers of orange snow poles will never go broke, you don't have to worrry about driving faster than 60kms an hour as it's suicidal, expect your photos to be spectacularly devoid of any colour other than white, notice that the go ahead occupation is driving F1 trucks with snow channeling funnels and expect to be gobsmacked by outstanding scenery every time you go around a corner !
We'd woken to a house finally with "hot water" after our boilers fuse had been replaced. While Monika was ecstatic i was a little disappointed having taken the shortiest showers ever recorded utilizing the time saved for more productive tasks like flying my drone ! While we were in "fix it" mode we'd also arranged to have our car towed out of our partly self dug ditch from the previous night. Kristain our friendly down the road "Towie" not only scrounged around on the icy ground to fix a tow rope to our cars wheel but also at the suggested that i line the driveway with sticks which i agreed was a far better solution than having to rely on Monika's frantic yelling to indicate when I was heading into trouble !
With our car back in action, our driveway lined with sticks and the weather only mildly freezing we headed off for a day at the beach a series of not too far away spectacularly located beaches that are prominent not for their ice like qualities but for their settings as backdrops to the northern lights.
A series of winding narrow roads took us to our first beach at Eggum, that is if you could call an ocean filled landscape of snow covered rocky boulders a beach. Thus beautiful location in a well frequented national park has the ruins of a former German radar post as ir's centrepiece. I think it's windswept location in winter might have had it's occupants wishing they were instead on the Russian Front !
We walked as best we could on a hidden snowed in path to take in some of the fabulous views having just enough exposed appendages to take a photo or 3 hundred !
Venturing further inland along icy roads we made our way to the magical setting of Haukland beach with its towering hills and amazing off white colour sand and what looked like turquoise coloured waters through gaps in between snow flurries. Walking along the sandy beach was a weird feeling as the top layer of sand rested on recent layers of snow feeling completely out of whack!
If snow on a beach surrounded by snow wasn't novel enough then a "snow" beach complete with a volleyball net and a Norwegian parent walking with a small child in tow complete with bucket and spade was almost surreal !
Exiting our beach location we drove back home via Leknes stocking up on supplies from the only shop open (apparently Easter Thursday is a holiday) arriving back in time to take our positions for the afternoon watching the rapidly changing weather patterns moving past Mt Hoven (opposite us) heading inland.
While the night failed to produce the Northern Lights once again (too cloudy !) we did at least shoot soom pretty cool shots of our moon lit location.
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