A day in Tromsø

Day 13

Today I woke up in our seal trappers hut which is located in East Greenland. First we sat outside and did our daily work as for example making firewood, then we took our wooden boat and rowed out to hunt seal. The other guys are nice but they’re quite stiff and don’t talk very much.

Polarmuseet: in the seal trappers hutPolarmuseet: in front of the seal trappers hutPolarmuseet: hunting seal

Ok, back to reality! Today I woke up in my small cabin outside of Tromsø. I went into the city crossing the Tromsøysundet on the big Tromsø Bridge. The weather was anything but a photographers dream: Dull, grey, windy and with showers of wet snow. Anyway, if I’m in Tromsø, I have to take some pictures …

Tromsø seen from the Tromsø BridgeView over town and sundThe inner city

Even in Tromsø thaw has set in and parts of the streets were very slippery. I was glad to have my “snow chains” with me that I can easily attach to my boots if it gets too icy. But I was inside, too: First in the big library, then in the Perspektivet Museum where they had a great photo exhibition: “Kom, for alt er ferdig”. Finally I visited the Polarmuseet and that’s where I took the photos of the seal hunting and the hut above.

At 14:20 the Hurtigruten ship Vesterålen arrived and landed in Tromsø.

Hurtigruten on the TromsøysundHurtigruten “Vesterålen”

I already was on my way back and when I took the photo of the church Ishavskatedralen 15:22, it started to get dark again.

At the harbourIshavskatedralen

Disclaimer: The usage rights of most of the images in this blog are for sale, but I have to exclude the first three photos that I made in the polar museet, because I’m not allowed to use these photos beside of publishing them in this non-commercial blog.

Back to Haukenes

Day nine

Today I drove back from Andenes to my friends in Haukenes where I’ll leave on Sunday or Monday. I didn’t choose the direct way on the eastern side of Andøya (82) but the detour on the western side via Stave and Skogvoll. There where some fantastic views, mostly at places where I couldn’t stop. But anyway, some images of today (and two of yesterday):

Let’s start with some houses in Andenes build on stilts (The greenish colour on the second photo comes from the polar light).

Stilt houses in AndenesWooden stilts from below

Andenes next morning and Bleik, where I took a long walk on the large sandy beach.

Andenes beachBleik beach

A small graveyard and a real tiny light house.

A small graveyard at the coastA real tiny light house

A man hanging up fish heads for drying (for the african market).

Hanging up fish to dry

And last not least some landscapes when sun went down again.

Evening sun lights the mountainIce and mountains

That’s today in a nutshell.