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
Got help from a young guy at the rorbu so now the work goes faster. 🙂
Continued to work on the covered terrace and started working on the rorbu frontage (fasad) towards the water.
Observe the ebb; when it is tide there is water under the rorbu.
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.
All of a sudden, a strange sound was heard in the sky. It sounded like a helicopter, and that was exactly what it was. Went out and saw it land in Skreda just a bit away from the rorbu we are building.
After talking with the fishing camp we got to know they had some Russian guests this week. Before we have only heard about some guests coming with helicopter. Now we have seen it.
Funny thing is that the helicopter stayed in Skreda. It was not rented, but owned by one of the guests. We can only wonder how it got to Norway. If it was flown the whole way to be used in Lofoten (not so likely considering the costs, but who knows?) or if someone had to get it here in advance (how to get a helicopter that long distance without flying it?) before the most important guest arrived.
Observe that all the land close to the sea around the helicopter is for sale.
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Started making inner walls at the upper floor in the rorbu.
Was out fishing at Haraldsskallen (north side of Nappstraumen), but didn’t get any fish there.
We were also on the lookout for the killer whales, but didn’t see any of them either.
Went to another place nearby which worked last summer, and there we were able to get some cod. Finally, fresh cod dinner! 🙂
Went out to fish in the close area (as the tank in the boat is starting to get more empty after we have forgotten to buy more gas when in Leknes for a couple of times), but was not so successful today either. Got a very small cod, which we threw back. I start to get tempted to fish for plaice (rödspätta) instead for a while, but then we need to get shrimps as bait, something we don’t have yet.
Coming in to land, we heard that some tourists had seen killer whales at, this time, the north side of Nappstraumen. Missed by me once again. Soon I hope to see them too. Just need to get more gas to go further out with the boat. Hopefully they will stay around for some more time. After all, we are supposed to be here the whole summer this year to finish working on the interior of the rorbu we are building.
Some days ago some tourists were asking about if we had caught anglerfish (breiflabb / marulk) yet in Lofoten, but we haven’t. Have probably not been out with the boat far enough to fish at the right depth for the anglerfish (or this is what we have heard gives higher chance of catching one).
Surprisingly enough, some of the tourists sees a small one close to the boat parking lots at not deeper than 3-4 meters. A fisherman gets it up to take a photo, and then let it back to it’s natural habitat, the sea. So now also an anglerfish has been seen in the Skreda area. 🙂
We can only guess what made this fish get so lost in the sea. Perhaps the killer whales have scared it?
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!
Tried to get some fish in the close area of Nappstraumen, but wasn’t successful today, despite the new, really good, sonar we have gotten for the boat this year. We ended up going to the pizzeria in Leknes instead.
On the other hand; we got two crabs over the night, and one of them was really big. They tasted marvellous. 🙂
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 