An early morning on the Vesterålen

After the two rainy days on the Lofoten Islands and the canceled ferry, I drove to Langøya via the eastern Vesterålen Islands and the town of Sortland. I wanted to spend the main part of my photo trip here. The journey was still affected by storms and rain and I was staying in a rorbuer, an old red fisherman’s house, on the Straumfjorden. What I hadn’t thought of when I booked the house was that the fjord is open to the west … and now we had a storm from the west, the night was quite restless, with the squalls shaking the wood of the fisherman’s house …

But the next day was going to be beautiful, so I went to one of the beaches early in the morning to soak up the atmosphere until sunrise. Not only were there rocks in the water with waves meandering around them, but there were also mountains opposite, which made the view very attractive. The rain had stopped and there were only a few thin bands of cloud in the sky. Unfortunately, as on the Lofoten Islands in the south, the snow had almost completely melted, but that didn’t detract from the atmosphere here.