It was really warm in the sun so we decided to have the breakfast outside of the cabin.
After a while the tame seagull Kaj came by. It was possible to handfeed it again.
Worked hard with painting the second layer of the rorbu we are building. Now it starts to look like it should, red.
In the evening we went to fish at Hagnäset and Nappstraumen.
We didn’t get so much fish (a small cod for tomorrow’s lunch, and some even smaller saithes as bait for halibut), but saw a seal sticking up it’s head from the water and an eagle flying up towards a mountain top. Unfortunately I was not fast enough so I didn’t get the chance of taking a photo of them. But we got some really nice photos of the sunset (yes, the midnight sun is not shown anymore this year. Midnight sun is shown from about mid may to mid july.)
When we saw a seagull outside the neighbours cabin, we heard the story about the tame seagull.
It seems one of the employees of the fishing camp has been nice to it through some time, and now you can see it waiting for food close to the cabin.
Johan wanted to check if it was possible to hand feed it, and succeeded after a long time with giving the bird the food at a distance from him and just waiting (still) for the bird to take it, and putting the food closer and closer to him.
Later on this seagull has gotten the name “Kaj”.
Seagull not interested in foodSeagull on its way to foodSeagull eats food from hand
Went over to some of our neighbours.
When watching out the window from their cabin, I saw something moving in the water. Something I thought was an otter or seal at first. After a longer glance we saw it was a nise just at the boat dock. It was swimming so close, and what we saw was the tumbler fin coming up and down. It almost touched the boats and the pier, and then it was gone.
I had left the phone in our cabin so I didn’t have the chance to seize this opportunity on film.
Good weather, about 18 degrees.
Today the weather was so nice so Johan got the idea to walk up the lowest part of Offersöy-kammen, with the plan of fishing in the afternoon.
Here it is worth mentioning that while Johan jumps up the mountains like a gazelle and has no fear at all for heights, I am the opposite and can feel dizzy from climbing the first step of a ladder.
As Johan had already been up to the highest point of Offersöy-kammen before he has seen there is a lake at the lowest part of the mountain, and that it was not at all as steep to go up that way, and that it might fit me. And as I have promised myself to work on my height phobia as I really like mountains and also would like to enjoy them from the top and not only from the below, I agreed to the trip.
We took the car to the opening of the Napp tunnel, where there is a parking lot for people trekking the mountain.
Started the walk, and the path was a fit for me. High, but not steep. We could see the Nappstraumen and Napp mountain very well from the first height.
What we also saw, was that this path didn’t look like going uphills so much, but more following the shore. The lake, as Johan remembered it, was on the top of another hill, much further away. We decided to go back so we wouldn’t be so late for the fishing, and make this walk another day. Johan went up the second height to see the best way of getting to the lake hill from there, for later.
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When I came back to the parking lot I was still waiting for Johan. Suddenly I saw a board with a map hidden in the green. It was not possible to get close enough to see the maps clearly, but the text I could read. It told that this path leads around the Offersöy-kammen mountain and takes 2-5 hours considering if the people are bold enough to go up to Offersöy-kammen or not. It passes some fishing villages on the way well worth seeing. The trip is considered easy-moderate. Seems like a really nice trip to make a sunny day with a backpack as support!
On the way home with the car Johan spots a falcon flying above some rorbus, while I only saw a medium size bird with red coloured breast flying over the car. Perhaps the falcon?
We started fishing in the afternoon at 5 pm.
Found a good place to fish close to the spot which is called ”35” at the north side of Nappstraumen.
The current was quite strong so we had to go back to the start position several times. Almost every drift we had quite big fish biting the Swedish jig and other jigs.
It was also several different fish in the area, so it added an extra excitement to what fish we were pulling up whenever we got something. When we had 3 big saithes (sej) at about 5-6 kilos, 2 big cods at 5-6 kilos and 1 tusk (lubb), we were heading back to Skreda at about 10 o’ clock.
Ate a really late dinner in the midnight sun, which is still around.
Saw a strange small animal walking over the street on the way home from Leknes by car. First thought was that it was a small squirrel, but we’re not sure they exist this far up north. It didn’t move like a rat, and was too small to be of of the bigger animals. My guess is a baby ferret (iller) or mink kind of animal. The strange thing was the movement; that it was trotting like a horse rather than jumping in some way, with a quite big tail for the small animal. Time might tell what it was we saw, if we get the chance to see it again.
During a midday walk at the old Skreda street, I spy after something you think you see now and then when it is not. Something that can be a wave hitting a underwater hill or just a strange wave… or something more interesting.
Lucky enough it appeared to be what I thought: a nise (artic dolphin), and not the more boring one.
This time I had the phone up in time to both get a picture of the fin and to video tape the fin coming up several times after each other. What was suprising is that the nise appeared very close to land, probably only 30 meters out.
When I came back and showed the video to Johan I had the idea it could be one small nise, when Johan thought it is probably two nises swimming close to each other.
Later we also heard that some of the tourists at the fishing camp had seen killer whales at the south side of Nappstraumen. Something I long to see, as I have not seen them yet. My video of nise(s) sounded like not so cool anymore, comparing to that vision. 😉
Johan went out with the boat nearby and got some small cods, perfect lunch fishes!
Looking out the window from the rorbu I see a very big bird flying back and forth over the Nappstraumen. It’s not a sea eagle, that’s for sure. It is such a distance it is hard to see good how it looks, but it is grey. Considering we have seen a cormorant (skarv) at a rocky islet nearby while passing with the boat a previous year, I decide it must be a cormorant.
During a walk at the old Skreda street, we see something strange swimming next to some birds in the sea in Nappstraumen. We figure it must be an otter. We used to see an otter a previous year close to the same area. Unfortunately we didn’t get the camera up fast enough to get a good picture.
Worked hard with painting the second layer of the rorbu we are building. Now it starts to look like it should, red.
In the evening we went to fish at Hagnäset and Nappstraumen.
What happens in Skreda 