More Skudeneshavn
After all the rain in the late afternoon and early evening, the rest of the evening was fine. Although the sun didn't come out again, there was a very brief flush of pink in the sky late at night.
Clearly my memory is faulty. You can see the rain making ripples in the water in the first photo. I think the HEAVY rain stopped but it continued raining a bit on and off all evening and during the night but was fine by next morning.
We were in southern Norway (on about the same latitude as northern Scotland, up to the Shetland isles.) I knew there wouldn't be midnight sun (we were a long way south of the arctic circle) but I was surprised at how long it stayed light. The sun actually set at about half past ten, but twilight lasted for ages after that and it wasn't fully dark at midnight. At 4am it was quite dark but by 6am it was full daylight. (I don't think I was awake at 5am any day, I seemed to wake even hours only!)
Just after the first downpour eased to a drizzle, I saw these two houses (converted from old wharves, I think.) One was white with rust red window frames and the next door one was rust red with white window frames. The light was atrocious and the photo could do with some work (rropping, correcting converging verticals, tweaking the contrast/saturation/colour balance) but that's unlikely to get done, so here it is anyway.
During one of the downpours, I sheltered in a doorway and had this view of the cottage below. I don't know why they had life jackets hanging outside the door - could they be lifeboat crew and have to grab them and run when they get a call? Hang them out to let the rain wash the salt water off?
As the rain eased off, I left my shelter, snapped these flowers, and the rain came down again so I had to scuttle back to the doorway.
Soon after I got back to the boat, it stopped raining. (Isn't it always the way?) Later in the evening, the rainwater was still percolating through the main sail and dripping on my head!
Below is a view of the main channel at Skudeneshavn, taken the following morning when we took a walk as far as a little wooded park with paths leading to a viewpoint. Our boat was moored in the small section off to the right (hidden by trees and houses.)
All photos: Canon EOS 350D with kit lens. Resized by Photobucket; no other processing.
Clearly my memory is faulty. You can see the rain making ripples in the water in the first photo. I think the HEAVY rain stopped but it continued raining a bit on and off all evening and during the night but was fine by next morning.
We were in southern Norway (on about the same latitude as northern Scotland, up to the Shetland isles.) I knew there wouldn't be midnight sun (we were a long way south of the arctic circle) but I was surprised at how long it stayed light. The sun actually set at about half past ten, but twilight lasted for ages after that and it wasn't fully dark at midnight. At 4am it was quite dark but by 6am it was full daylight. (I don't think I was awake at 5am any day, I seemed to wake even hours only!)
Just after the first downpour eased to a drizzle, I saw these two houses (converted from old wharves, I think.) One was white with rust red window frames and the next door one was rust red with white window frames. The light was atrocious and the photo could do with some work (rropping, correcting converging verticals, tweaking the contrast/saturation/colour balance) but that's unlikely to get done, so here it is anyway.
During one of the downpours, I sheltered in a doorway and had this view of the cottage below. I don't know why they had life jackets hanging outside the door - could they be lifeboat crew and have to grab them and run when they get a call? Hang them out to let the rain wash the salt water off?
As the rain eased off, I left my shelter, snapped these flowers, and the rain came down again so I had to scuttle back to the doorway.
Soon after I got back to the boat, it stopped raining. (Isn't it always the way?) Later in the evening, the rainwater was still percolating through the main sail and dripping on my head!
Below is a view of the main channel at Skudeneshavn, taken the following morning when we took a walk as far as a little wooded park with paths leading to a viewpoint. Our boat was moored in the small section off to the right (hidden by trees and houses.)
All photos: Canon EOS 350D with kit lens. Resized by Photobucket; no other processing.