Exploring the island of Flakstadøy

Gestern begann unser Tag mit einer Fahrt in das malerische und sehr bekannte Fischerdörfchen Nusfjord auf der Insel Flakstadøy

Already the road to Nusfjord is worth seeing and invites to stop briefly for a photo. We continue past the frozen lake Storvatnet until we finally reach Nusfjord.

We continue past the frozen lake Storvatnet until we finally reach Nusfjord.

It is just 10:00 and thus sunrise time. Today we had a lot more luck with the weather than the day before and so we could even see some blue sky.

Nusfjord seems quiet and sleepy, few tourists were here, as well as few locals who were on the road at the time.

So we strolled slowly through the village and at the end we went up on a lookout hill, from where you have a beautiful panoramic view.

Nach gut einer Stunde hat man dann aber auch wirklich alles in Nusfjord gesehen und so fuhren wir weiter Richtung Fredvang , einem kleinen Ort der über zwei Brücken zu erreichen ist. Diesen Ort hatte ich mir schon vorab auserkoren, um endlich mal mit Drohni in die Lüfte abheben zu können. Leider war es bisher immer viel zu stürmisch gewesen oder hat geschneit, oder beides. Auch heute waren wir weit von windstill entfernt, aber wer weiß, ob es nochmal besser werden würde.

So we parked our car between the two bridges and waited for another passing snowstorm (at least it snowed again today, I was worried that the rain would melt away all the snow...).

Dann irgendwann, als sich wieder eines der wenigen 10 Minuten Zietfenster auftat, in denen es gerade weder hagelte, noch stürmte, startete ich mit Drohni los. Zumindest einmal wollte ich sie in die Lüfte schicken, aber um die Perspektive zu bekommen, die ich mir vorgestellt hatte, genügten wenige Meter nicht. Vorsichtshalber machte ich trotzdem schon nach 20m und nochmals nach 40m das erste Bild, was sich als klug herausstellte, denn schon bald kam die Warnung: „zu hohe Windgeschwindigkeiten, bitte schnellstmöglich landen“. Seit mir Drohni vor gut einem Jahr das erste mal abgestürzt ist, bin ich sehr vorsichtig geworden und so leistete ich dem Hinweis Folge und landete wieder. Kurz darauf zog ohnehin der nächste Schneesturm durch.

Afterwards, when the sky cleared up again, we took some nice shots of the road leading straight to a picturesque, sharp mountain.

Then we continued to the beaches Skagsanden and Vikten, which are characterized by rugged rocks and rough wind.

When we were on our way back, we drove through another snowstorm, which made the road disappear completely in the snow again. We actually thought it was already dark (after all, it was already half past 4). But shortly before we arrived home, the sky cleared up and presented us with the most beautiful sunset colors.

That's exactly how you wish it as a photographer when you travel to the Lofoten Islands in January. That this is mostly wishful thinking, however, has become clear to me in the meantime.

Later in the evening we went outside again, hoping to see maybe some auroras. However, this is much more difficult here on our Norway trip than a year ago in Iceland. The sky is mostly cloudy and if there are a few small gaps in the cloud cover, then only for a few minutes. So we parked our car and waited for several hours. At the very end we were rewarded at least with a very short glimpse of a green aurora in the sky before it was completely covered by clouds again. Hopefully there will be another better opportunity in the next days.