Day of the zoological highlights

Day 39: Olderfjord-Honningsvåg (103 km)

Today was the day of the long tunnels, the zoological highlights, and the local music festival.

We left at quarter to nine. We met many reindeer on our way today. In some cases we stopped to take some pictures, in some cases we just continued.

At some point, I saw something appearing and disappearing into the water quite close to the coast, and at second sight, I realised it was either whales or dolphins. My first guess was harbour porpoise, but I’m not sure. They were two and fun to watch though. I filmed them for quite a while.

Since there weren’t any cafés or other natural resting places along the way, we took a lunch break just along the road. Sitting there, I suddenly discovered a seal just outside the coast.

After another hour or so, I stopped again because I had spotted a sea eagle. It landed on a rock and we waited for ages for it to lift again. I got some nice seconds of film of it flying in the end.

Then we had the tunnels. The Nordkapp tunnel is seven kilometres long and 211 metres below sea level. It connects the mainland with the island Nordkapp is located on. It was very noisy, very steep, but OK from a traffic perspective.

There were a few more tunnels, but we finally got to Honningsvåg where we found a nice restaurant and I had some good fish & chips. Through the window, I spotted a poster on the other side of the street. And it appeared that there is a music festival in Honningsvåg this week. Since it was raining outside, we skipped our initial plan to camp outside town, checked in at a hotel and went to the festival instead. It’s called Oggasjakka – verdens naiseste festival (nicest festival in the world). Let’s see!