Torvik

 Torvik

We had a ten minute stop at Torvik.

This wasn't our first stop as we had stopped twice during the night for equally quick ferry and cargo stops but this was the first for which I was awake. We had had a choppy night with three metre swell but that was better than the ships southern trip just days before when there was an eight metre swell. 

As we entered the fjord, there was better protection and it was a smoother ride. We slowed so that we would be exactly on time. We had a tight port turn followed by a tight starboard turn and using thrusters we inched up to the wharf and moored at exactly 8,20am. The wharf in Jorvik

A close up of the wharf. The eight pallets by the closed door were to be loaded.

The doors opened and the forklift took one tiny pallet off the ship.

Then it started loading the other pallets.

Plus a car.

Followed by another car, both not driven by the owner but by stevedores but no passengers got on to off. The doors shut and at exactly 8.30am, we set off again.

The fjord was wide and my pictures don't do it justice.

A coastal freight dwarfed by the size of the fjord sides.

A small fishing village.

That freighter was following us.

Then just an hour and quarter later we reached Ålesund ...

...another view but it was only a 15 minutes stop before we moved on the Urke on the Hjørundfjorden. Hjørundfjorden