Real bad night had to park up close to building to get out of the main force of the Gale. Wow, don't have to do that too often.

Nothing new today, spent tidying up, stowing gear that I won't be needing on the way back down south and generally getting ready to go.

Will get the ferry an evening earlier as on my planned departure date another Gale is forecast and I don't want to get stuck because the ferry is canceled. Could drive out but that means driving north and then turning east into Narvik before turning south again. Two extra days driving I can do without.

Unless something of note happens tomorrow this will be my last but one post from this trip. Round it off when I'm back in Düsseldorf.

Oh I see a couple of comments below without an e-Mail address/s. That's okay by me but if you don't include an address I can't respond. If of course you wanted one. Your address is not revealed to anyone by the way, inclusion of it in a comment merely opens up a "Reply" button for me. Just for info.

Very high winds and torrential rain. Thats about all that will be reported today. I'm sulking in the van and hoping the Rugby will kick off soon.

​Sorry no earth shattering images or lesser. 

Beautiful crisp, clear blue day which made it a wee bit tame photography wise. So I concentrated a bit on the sea and until recently some of its inhabitants.

When you see all these racks of fish all over the islands one really wonders were they all come from. Or more to the point, how many are left?

All I have to offer today, sorry.

I did have a crack at the Aurora tonight because the sky looked so like the day, and all forecasts were positive. Trekked out to the the secret place, got set up wrapped up the gear to keep it as warm as possible until the lights appeared. I then, already well wrapped up, cowered down in the comparative protection of a monster boulder but to no avail. Lights didn't appear and despite my protected position I froze again.

Below selfies of a fearless Aurora Hunter, his surrounds and his gear, which I fear was warmer than its owner. (Click on 'em)

Catch up day been lousy all day so far so caught up with my pre-processing.

There have been quite a few images posted to both the colour and B&W sections, as always mostly comparison versions of the same images. Must admit though this time there were a couple that did not lend themselves to a conversion.

My latest playground is the beach 150 meters in front of my van. Mostly abstract but they fascinate me. Check the last seventeen images in both tabs black and colour.

More later we have very high tides today and it has just started to recede, so off to my playground. Snows let up and no folks around to leave great hoof marks in the sand.

Only picked up three more images in the playground today, tide was high but the sea is relatively quiet so not too much activity in the sand as the sea goes back out.

Tomorrow.

Well I have been slacking as far as the Blog is concerned, but not otherwise. Not true got some catching up to do with image pre-processing. So because of that only two new ones to be found, Todays Offering which is repeated with another as a filler under the B&W Norway ones.

Last two days have been incredibly still and clear. Which after all the weather thats been flying around here leaves one feeling threatened. Lull before the storm touch.

Last night was really clear and the moon is almost full, so its almost like daylight, as is this evening. Yesterday I was off into the bush to make magnificent Aurora images and of course they didn't appear They'd been forecast as strength 3. The only thing that was exciting and fun was a winter Hare all white and almost invisible who wandered up partaking of his supper and parked himself within couple of meters of where I was standing. I guess I was invisible to him, my clothing was all pretty dark and I was standing against a fence line on the edge of a cemetery. Probably would not have seen him either as I was staring up at the sky full of hope optimist that I am, and just caught a flicker of movement out of the corner of my eye. It being a cemetery and all I turned my head very slowly case the ghost's were about and there he were. Made me a happy bunny anyway. Him not so when I finally moved, he shat himself, leapt straight up in the air and took off at a rate of knots. All in one it is to be understood.

I stayed around for two and a half hours but no lights just me shaking, clappering and freezing my nuts off. Just before getting my head down at midnight I had a quick butchers outside of the van. If you really know what you are looking for you could just see these whips grey clouds. They are the lights but to the human eye barely discernible. Camera sensors pick up a light green hue, but not worth the effort.

They are forecast at 3 again tonight, but I'm going to stay in the van and keep an eye out and my nuts warm. There is another place to set up that I have found a wee bit closer so if it looks worth the effort I can shoot off. Otherwise I'm staying home.

First day of Spring yesterday I believe, It was a cracking day, sunshine almost all of it, and with apologise to our Arabian friend, magnificently cloudy, great big thumping ones. I'll post some images of it tomorrow, (I mean later on) after a kipp.

Not going to go on a lot, which I'm sure will delight you all. Almost two in the morning and I've chucked the images from earlier on in the usual place for the colour images, and I mean chucked quite literally. They have come straight out of the light box and onto the site. Dun nuttin to'em. No apologise.

​I'm still thawing out so best place for me is my pit.

I just love it here, up and about at six and the sunrise had just started its climb over the horizon, tops of the mountains just catching the sun and I thought oh boy, todays the day.

Got myself (read Van) organised for its day, turned around and could nae see owt. No mountains, no nuttin, not even the borderline between camp and sea. All greyed out and snowing like mad. Clear again now, maybe thats the sort of weather the locals refer to as April showers. Doesn't matter that its still March, weather seems to ignore all the rules anyway. But I really do love it, I'll miss it down south aways.

Not really much point in watching this space today, last day of the Six Nations and I shall be spending it in front of my laptop trying to make sure I get a decent stream to watch the games.

Writing of laptop I love mine as well. The Mac Notification tab which summarises all my daily gubbins has just informed me that "☁️ Cloudy today. It's currently 0°; the high will be -2°". Italics mine, I love it. The next thing it tells me on my calendar is that "Wales v Italy at 15:30"😃
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Well thats that then. Six Nations over and done with and we get the Grand Slam. Well well! Had the decent streams I'd wished for myself for all three game. Absolutely exhausted now. Who needs the Aurora anyway when you can watch all that Rugby, and not have to freeze doing it.

​Night all round.

Hi folks, your lucks out, I'm back again.

Not a lot today but still sniffing around. Still a wee bit parky though.

Mind you I have no grounds to complain, another first for me today one of the places I was checking out on a beach the sand was actually frozen. Later on at another I was shivering and thinking this is not much fun, a car pulled up, two fellas jumped out, stripped off put their suits on and went surfing.

I had to go and have a cuppa, couldn't stand watching. But afterwards I thought why not, folks go diving in it.

Posts are up and only got twelve days before breaking camp and heading south again. Maybe the unmentionables will show up before then.

Woke to find there had been light snow overnight and the temperature is back under the zero mark for the first time in about six days. Thats not so bad except the wind has got up again and think it must be coming down from further north. Thats pushed the chill factor way up now so having to get nice and snug in what I wear.

Little doodle around but found nothing new that caught my eye, so had my lunch and pondered. Whilst employed on this rather exhausting activity it cleared some so I grab a camera and set off along the beach heading west to see what I could get. The light and clouds were constantly changing and the results are all posted this evening.

​Hope you approve.