Heading South from Bodo Sunday 26th August

Awelina of Sweden
James Collier
Sun 26 Aug 2012 17:00
66 39.49 N, 13 04.85 E

We were very glad to find the boat safely tied up where we had left her and
also without any noticeable form of fines. We'd been concerned that our "pay
and display" ticket attached to the front head window was due to expire
Thursday 23rd August. We did ask the Port Authority for advice who replied
that we should "just buy 3 more days on our return back to Bodo", despite
their website threatening fines of 1500 NOK per day overstayed. As we
arrived so late in the day we opted to restock at the local supermarket and
head off the next morning. The only thing of note in Bodo really was that
the beer was still VERY expensive and the diesel (when we snuck it into our
illegal deck containers) was a bright cerulean blue. As was the sky on
Sunday when we left around 10 am full of fuel, stores, water and high hopes
of a smooth passage south. Of course the wind was on the nose again but
hardly any strength at all so we motored down through the first sound with
the main up. The morning flight form Oslo flew in over our heads (literally)
as we made our way south. Norway delivered with views of spectacular
mountains and islands and all manner of rock formations. We passed the
Svartigen glacier - Norway's second biggest and indeed it went on for miles
hugging the hilltops into the far distance. slightly more shipping here as
we move South notably fishermen and the Hurtigruten of all shapes and sizes.
We'd note sunset around 10 pm so hoped to be at anchor by 9 - the fjords and
skerries are not lit despite having a chart plotter we decided against
motoring in the dark. We found a small sheltered anchorage just south of
Rodoya, with a tiny port, apparently a restaurant and some old Russian
warehouses down the side of the quay left over from the Pomoy Trade. The
wind died to nothing and we discovered that Norway has mosquitos here too so
we opted for a late supper and bed with the hatches shut!

The chart plotter again has come into it's own, despite having several
potential points of failure it has served to get us through skerries and
past rocks and into anchorages.