When nature is spying on you

Recently the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation announced that it has not been such few sunny days in my home town, Bodø, for 40 years. So when I discovered that it was actually sunny outside. I decided to go for a spontaneous walk somewhere. After a random Google search I decided to go for a walk from Nedre Åslivatnet, a lake not far from Saltstraumen.

After a ten minutes walk, I sensed that I was not alone. Someone was watching me. I looked up. And there it was. A sea eagle.

I have seen them many times in and around Bodø. I have never seen them flying straight over me like this one, though. It was pretty high up in the sky. It flew forth and back over my head, high up there, as if it wanted to check me out from a distance. I guess it decided that I was not a threat, as it decided to fly back to the place it came from. And then it was gone. It reminded me of a poem I wrote many years ago:

Then I discovered that it was not only the eagle that I had lost. I had also lost the path I was following.

In Norway, the Norwegian Tourist Association has marked the mountain tracks with cairns or a red T, such as this one:

I guess I am easily distracted. It took a while before I found the next red T. In some instances I could see the T, but would still be uncertain about whether I was in the right track. I mean, maybe somebody just felt like decorating a stone with some nice, red colour that coincidentally looked just like the Norwegian Tourist Associations paint.

Here I had to do some climbing. And it turned out that this was actually the path.

It was a really nice and sunny day, but at the same time it was also pretty windy, like it is most days in Bodø and the surrounding areas. If you hate bad hair days, always put on a beanie/lots of extra strong hair gel, or you will look like me in this picture.

I had to take a sneak-peak to see what was hiding behind me. It turned out to be two blue, little lakes.

I definitely have to check out those lakes another day. This time, I was aiming for the mountain. The ground was a bit wet and muddy, so I was happy to see these bridges/planks.

It is really great to have so much space, almost to myself. The only other people I met was a couple taking a siesta in a hammock. It looked a bit romantic. Hammocks are actually a huge trend in Norway right now due to the Covid-19 situation. People put them up everywhere.  I guess we are going back to our roots. Back to the nature. Keeping our distance to people, but getting closer to the nature.

After a while, I looked for the perfect place to eat my lunch. A place where  lunch would not fly away with the wind, and my hair would not end up in my coffee cup. I found out that the best solution was to take cover from the wind by the trees.

 

It turned out to be a good place for drinking my coffee, eat my lunch and look at the mountain peaks.

Even though it was in May, it was  enough snow to build a snowman. And so I did.

 

 

 

 

 

After I had built my new little friend, I decided to do some more exploring.

I found this beautiful little waterfall.

And I got a little bit closer to the mountain peaks.

I also saw how brutal the wind could behave towards the poor trees.

I have alway loved trees. When I was a child, I used to be some kind of mini-Tarzan, climbing the trees whenever I had the chance. I especially loved climbing as high as I could when it was a bit windy, as the tree would turn into a rocking cradle.

I would have loved to climb this tree, that I found on my way back to my car.

Nature had again showed itself from its best side.

I am trying to test out my creative skills, so I have tried to sum up my whole trip in this video: