Finnsnes, Norway
An advertisement, see further down for details.
We left Tromso later than planned. There was to be a cruise up the Trollfjord but it was late, dark and raining so it was abandoned but it did mean that we were back on schedule for our 15 minute stop in the morning at Harvard.
There were still things to see from the ship such as this salmon farm and floating farmhouse.
You can tell that it is cold and the snow line is slowly descending as we move north.
We were dead on time at Finnsnes and a picture of my ship.
The greeting board at the docks.
Another advertisement taken not for the subject matter but the position details under Finnsnes which shows that we are already 3 degrees into the Arctic Circle.
I had seen cargo and being loaded and unloaded from the deck but not from the shore and here there was time to get off the ship, it wasn't during a meal, the weather wasn't awful and it was during the day.
A pallet going on board, some of that load are lifebelts...we must have lost some when someone fell overboard.
Te bottom of the hole in the side of the ship is above the level of the dock but the cargo deck area is at water level and there are two lifts to lower or raise pallets to the correct level. Left side is for loading...
...right side for unloading.
Thee is also a car lift...
...after a while, a second car emerges from the lift...
...and another goes in...
...and the lift drops it to deck level.
And from the end of the quay, there is the Gisundbrua bridge that connects the mainland on the right to the island of Senja on the left and high enough for shipping including ourselves in a few minutes to pass underneath.
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