Seagull Hatchlings - Friday Photo #495
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Friday Photo #495 – Seagull Hatchlings

Photo: Three seagull hatchlings in evening light, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 1, 2022, 03:59 With summer will underway it is the beginning of hatching season for the local seabirds. What are usually already loud nights…
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Arctic Skuas - Friday Photo #494
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Friday Photo #494 – Arctic Skuas

Photo: Arctic Skuas under the midnight sun, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. June 18, 2022. 01:02 I am admittedly a terrible wildlife photographer and even worse when it comes to birds - probably because I don’t really have much…
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Summer Wildflowers - Friday Photo #493
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Friday Photo #493 – Summer Wildflowers

Photo: Summer house by the sea, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. June 17, 2022. 17:28 With midsummer less than a week away Lofoten is now reaching its peak summer lushness. The landscape is bright green and the fields filled with…
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Summer Rainbow - Friday Photo #492
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Friday Photo #492 – Summer Rainbow

Photo: Summer evening rainbow circles the sky over Haugheia, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. June 8, 2022. 21:51 After last weeks brief visit of summer - hitting 20˚c on June 1st, the temperature took a significant drop over the…
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Kvalvika Midnight Sun - Friday Photo #491
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Friday Photo #491 – Kvalvika Midnight Sun

Photo: Midnight sun over Kvalvika beach, Lofotodden national park, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. May 31, 2022. 00:02 After what has been a cold and wet spring this year, the last week has brought the arrival of the midnight sun…
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Nesting Season - Friday Photo #490
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Friday Photo #490 – Nesting Season

Photo: Ground nest in coastal moorland of common gull, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. May 26, 2022. 16:07 With the midnight sun having arrived in the north and the landscape turning greener by the day - though the trees are still…
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Almost Midnight - Friday Photo #489
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Friday Photo #489 – Almost Midnight

Photo: Four minutes til midnight - spring twilight over hornleva, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. May 19, 2022. 23:56 After what has so far been a depressingly cold and grey May the clouds finally broke on Wednesday afternoon for…
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West Lofoten Hikes V4

Ebook Update – West Lofoten Hikes – 4th Edition

A new update is out for West Lofoten Hikes ebook. More info. This is a fairly minor update compared to previous ones. Now added to the fouth edition: 5 new hikes and 40 pages. Price stays the same at $16 (+ Vat for those of you in…
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Beach Seaweed - Friday Photo #488
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Friday Photo #488 – Beach Seaweed

Photo: Seaweed covered beach after a week of stormy May weather, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. May 11, 2022. 22:33 Today’s photo is an intentionally ‘ugly’ one. It has been a fairly stormy, cold and rainy May this year…
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Light And Shadow - Friday Photo #487
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Friday Photo #487 – Light And Shadow

Photo: Long shadows fall over the peaks of Veggen, Mannen, and Himmeltidan on Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. May 3, 2022. 21:25 It has been a turbulent and stormy start to May this year and any short moment of sunlight was quickly…
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April Snow - Friday Photo #486
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Friday Photo #486 – Return Of Winter

Photo: Late April beach snow, Myrland, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. April 28, 2022. 23:25 Winter has returned to Lofoten! After a period of mild weather that saw most of the low level and a fair amount of high level snow melted…
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Haugheia | Lofoten Hiking Guide

Spring Cleaning and Updates

Photo: Last light over Haugheia, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. With the midnight sun and the summer hiking season just over a month away, I've begun a bit of a spring cleaning of the website to get everything updated as much…
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Haugheia | Lofoten Hiking Guide
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New Mountain Hikes – Haugheia and Helligberbet

I've added two new hiking guides for some easy small mountains on Vestvågøy: Haugheia (145m), located near Leknes, and Helligberget (238m), located in Unstad. Haugheia hiking guide Haugheia is an easy family (and child) friendly…
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April Twilight - Friday Photo #485
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Friday Photo #485 – April Twilight

Photo: The northern sky glowing at midnight in the white nights of spring, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. April 20, 2022. 00:35 Only a month after the spring equinox in March the nights of mid april are no longer fully dark. Though…
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Spring Ptarmigan - Friday Photo #484
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Friday Photo #484 – Spring Ptarmigan

Photo: Male Ptarmigan in mix of winter and summer moulting sitting on fence post, Myrland, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. April 11, 2022. 15:11 With the long and (hopefully) sunny days of April comes the ever increasing activity…
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Last Aurora - Friday Photo #483
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Friday Photo #483 – Aurora Season Ending

Photo: April northern light shine over glowing northern horizon in final days of aurora season, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. April 10, 2021. 01:06 With the ever lightening nighttime sky of April comes the inevitable end of Lofoten’s…
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