Summer in May

A normal summer in Norway begins in mid May and continues until mid August. But you never know, this year it has been a long summer, and that is perfect for sailing!

Iglandsvik Marina

The nice weather continued for the next weeks in May/June, and we decided to go to our neighbour municipality, Bremanger. They have some really nice spots to visit!

We sailed all the way north to Iglandsvik Marina and Astor worked a little bit more than his crew… It takes us a couple of hours with good wind up there.

Iglandsvik Marina is a quiet marina and this weekend it was not many boats there. Here is also a place for camping, both for tents or a campervans. Here are toilets and showers, pritty new. You will find a small supermarket ashore in the white builing. They sell all kind of things you need, or you don`t know you need.

There is an amazing view wherever you go!

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Saturday morning I wanted to walk to Grotlesanden, my favourite beach, while Astor was sailing over there. May is a spectacular time to walk this distance, before all the farmers cut their grass. It is flowers as long you can see!

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Grotlesanden

It is the most beautiful spot!

Astor is taking the boat to Grotlesanden

Astor got a paddleboard for Christmas from me and now it was the time to use it. It is NOT warm water in the ocean!

But a lot of people met up at the beach

And some came from heaven!

Miriam also tried the paddleboard, learning from Astor. I need higher temperature in the water before I try it 🙂

Also a bit dramatic when it started burning in the garbage container. When people put disposable grills into it together with all kind of stuff, before its cold…. Don`t do that. Fill it with seawater and put it outside of the container, or take it with you back home.

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when we went back to the boat the fog was on the way around the corner from north-west.

And over the mountain. It is a hikingtrack up the hill if you want to go to the mountain Veten, it is a beautiful view from the top

The night was a bit uncomfortable while the boat was rolling. Luckily it stopped around 3 am and we had a few hours to sleep.

We didn`t wanted to go back to the beach in the morning, so we startet on the way back to Florø. We wanted to try fishing. We haven`t done that for a while, or… we try, but no fish

And Miriam got the fish! Unfortunately she also knew that it would be fish for dinner more than one day…

Kalvåg

We had a short stop in Kalvåg, a small fishing village, before we were heading south. We sailed on the outside of Hovden, because it was no wind on the inside of this island.

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Weekends like this is a good memories when it starts raining or it is snowing in the winter.

In the next post I will tell you more about meeting other people with boats. What will happens if you try to talk to them?