July 25th Skutvik - Nordskot
With a plan to motor to Helnessund i motored away through the quite nice landscapes of Steigen. In what you could call nice varied weather. (it didn't rain much but skies, overcast and sun was switching constantly)
Compared to the Lofoten I sailed through in the last week or so Steigen felt more tranquil. Partly du to protected sounds to sail through and partly because here there are a prominent strandflat between the sea and mountains in many places. Thus instead of forming fishing villages people here as in much of Norway has spread out in the strandflat with farms and combining fishing and farming. The mountains forming the backdrop is however similar to the mountains of Lofoten.
When going through the manmade and newly realigned channels towards Nordskot (my paper charts was not updated) the sea was mirror flat, I thought I saw a free spot on the dock and the weather looked more ominous further south, so I cancelled my plan and stopped here.
As the overcast and rainy variations of the weather disappeared through the afternoon and thus presenting Steigen in an even (literary) better light, the choice to stop was even more confined as good.
And then came the main show - hours of spectacular sunset.
(no looking through the ocular with the final minutes of the sun going below jagged mountains of Lofoten through a 250 mm Pentax lens)
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