Another rainy day

Day 22: Nesna-Jektvik (97 km)

When we woke up this morning, it was very cloudy and grey again. During breakfast in my tent, it was also raining, but by the time we took down the tents, it had stopped. Wolf and I cycled together again today. We started the day with a coffee at the local petrol station in Nesna before we headed north again.

After few minutes, it started raining again so that we stopped to take on our overshoes. Unfortunately, my helmet fell down here and the mount with my GoPro camera fell off. It was fixed with a self-adhesive tape, so I tried to attach it again, but I’m not sure how solid this is. So I filmed mostly handheld today (which has the advantage that I could film myself from time to time, too).

After around twenty kilometres, we had to cycle over a pass of 350 metres altitude. Down on the other side, we were hoping for a petrol station and a coffee, but since there wasn’t any, we had a short break in a bus stop which offered shelter from the rain.

When we continued, the rain got heavier, but it was a nice ride really along the beautiful Helgeland coast which looked a bit dramatic in the grey rainy weather. After 70 kilometres, we reached a museum where we could finally have a longer break and sit inside in a warm place. After this break, the weather also got better, so we could cycle the last twenty kilometres to the ferry from Kilboghavn to Jektvik without rain.

From Jektvik, we continued slowly for a couple of more kilometres, always looking out for potential tent spots. We finally found a nice spot directly by the sea at a small pier. We had dinner and a beer together outside before it started dripping again and we went back to our tents.

We are now less than 200 kilometres away from Bodø and still on schedule for Bodø on Thursday and the boat to Lofoten on Friday. The weather forecast for Thursday and Friday is excellent. So tomorrow might be the last cloudy and maybe rainy day for a while (knocking on wood).