Day 02
Day two brought us another day with bright sunshine and blue skies.
What else can you ask for?
Even the butterflies and other flies... were delighted and enjoying the fine weather.
As for ourselves, we still not had arrived the point from were we really wanted to start this tour.
We had to leave the southern valleys, the trip over to E6 again, and a bit down through
the minings at Løkken Verk, then through Orkanger (city?) and another 50 kilometers
out along the Trondheimsfiord to Valset. A small place were we could take the ferry
to where we really wanted to get started.
From here it was the coastal route all the way up to Bodø
that was what we have longed to go for many, many years.
As mentioned in the introduction-part of this story, we wanted to see the mountains,
for which this coastal route was so famous.
To our big surprise the first thing we met was a place so flat that we could not even see it from the ferry....
the map was found at: http://www.museumsnett.no/yrjarheimbygdslag/bilder/orl_kart.jpg (Not valid as per Sept .2010)
That part is called Ørlandet, and you have to look at the map to see how
far out on this peninsula we started our coastal tour.
Out at a place called Garten, where the houses were so close to each other
that we barely had our car turned so we could start on our tour right from the beginning.*
And that was as far as we could go.
More surprises awaited us. At numbers 1 and 3 on the map, out right,
we found a camping site, and for some unknown reason, there was a nice little beach,
with clear water and a sandy bottom with absolutely no people on it,
right down for the entrance to the camp - while inside on the beach there
several people gathered, bathing both in the sun and in the water....
An unusual lady reigned here about 500 years ago, called Inger from Austrått,
but that's another story. Perhaps we can have it translated to english shortly.
http://oddso.nvg.org/nsh/t-austraatt.html
After leaving Austrått some hours later, we made our way NorthEastward.
It didn't excactly follow the coastline here.
Highest point on the road was 290 m asl, and then it dropped down to the sea level again.
Storvik, 20 kilometers south of Osen, just North of Brandsfjorden.
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