biggest cranes i've ever seen. Norweigan ship builders have now mostly switched to supporting the oil industry. Stavanger has a good museum devoted to the history of oil exploration in Norway. One gets an insight into the tough life lived on board the rigs in the north sea. Having sailed past the rigs and their associated support ships it was interesting to find out more about them.
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Monday, August 07, 2006
stavanger
biggest cranes i've ever seen. Norweigan ship builders have now mostly switched to supporting the oil industry. Stavanger has a good museum devoted to the history of oil exploration in Norway. One gets an insight into the tough life lived on board the rigs in the north sea. Having sailed past the rigs and their associated support ships it was interesting to find out more about them.
Lysefjord
to get an idea of the scale of this, those are 20 foot high trees, a small cruise ship is probably about [--] long
Lysefjord
Prekestolen seen from below (square bit in the middle). It is 600m high, there are people standing on the edge, my camera doesn't stretch that far.
what's that?
from head on, at a distance, it looked like a rock with a light on top, with a bow wave..
bergen
At the head of the old harbour in Bergen. At the weekend. Lots of motor boats, many with disco-quality sound systems. It doesn't get dark, the music plays all night.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Hardangerfjord
We'd just arrived in Rosendal when a boat pulled up alongside to say hello - we asked for suggestions for places to go and they said to try the Rock Garden, so we stopped there on the way back from the Baronetcy. Lots of nicely presented stones and information about how they are formed.
Hardangerfjord
In Rosendal we visited the Baroniet Rosendal, waited a while in the kitchen for the guided tour to start
Hardangerfjord
from Uskedal we travelled to Rosendal. We only went to places that had been recommended to us by locals who we met along the way. Rosendal was thanks to the local headmaster.
Hardangerfjord
it was rainy and windy but we stopped complaining once it cleared enough to see the view
Skudeneshavn
The weather would be lovely for several days, then it'd rain for a few days. This was the only harbour that I visited twice. The next time I went, in July, the boats were rafted 6 deep.
enroute to the Preikestolen
Sailed over to Tau to get the bus to the Preikestolen Hytte. From there you have a fairly strenuous, easy if you are Norweigan, walk to the Preke Stolen, the 'pulpit stone', which just out 600m above the Lysefjord.
Kvitsoy. There isn't a lot of tidal range in this part of Norway, so buildings can be close to the water.
Tananger -> Kvitsoy
"The official name on the lighthouse is Oksafoten (oxfootrock) and it is a so called lighthouse on a column." - thanks, Leif, for the information.
traditional wooden boats are still being built in Norway. One sees many Colin Archer types, these are often quite recent, we found it interesting to see how closely, or not, these replicated the originals: it isn't unusual to see stainless steel rigging and other modern features mixed in with heavy wooden spars and a gaff rig.
tied up alongside in tananger guest harbour, the Swedish wooden yacht was the star of the show. the guest harbour is run by the nearby hotel and is inexpensive and the facilites are, as all over Norway with the rarest exceptions, immaculate
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