Ann & Katie's Voyages

Today we took a tour out of Olden, Norway, to Kjenndal Glacier and then on a boat ride down the length of Lovatn Lake. To the left is a picture taken at the Lovatn dock outside the little restaurant where we had tea and waffles; you can see the brilliant blue of the water, colored by stone and soil ground up by the glacier. On our hike up to the face of the glacier, the water bubbling through the rocky streambed looked so clean and pure that I couldn't help drinking some of it.

On the boat ride, our captain was a retired farmer who had lived his whole life by the lake. He told us a bit about what it was like to live in this fairly remote place, and sang a Norwegian folk song extolling the beauty of this region. He pointed out the various peaks surrounding the lake, and said he had been to the top of every one of them, then he said that he loved being up there because "then you feel that the world is only for you."

Tomorrow we are in Geiranger Fjord, and I am taking a hike up some cliffs to a waterfall, so I look forward to perhaps feeling the farmer-captain's sentiment.

I'll leave you with a photo from the small town of Olden itself, of some prettily-painted mailboxes which give you a sense of the Norwegian decorative aesthetic.