Iduns big brother Frode lives on the peninsula Furøy (pine island, although it was called Leirøy, clay island while it was still an island) between Finnsnes and Sørreisa centre in Troms. Every winter he arranges an activity holiday for the Løwø siblings. This time we wanted to join! BUT – Idun broke her shoulder last time she skied, so the main activity of skiing wasn’t so tempting. A bath, on the contrary, is always tempting!
Close to Sørreisa church is Tømmervika (the Timber bay), and from there it is a short walk to Storvika (the Big bay) – Furøya’s primary bathing spot.
Crossing the road were tracks of rabbit, moose, deer and fox. Deer are living here only for the second year. They rely on old conifer trees and last year the planted conifers were finally old enough. About the fox: we _think_ it was fox, since there were no human tracks nearby. Maybe if we could have heard what the fox said…
The deer had had a gathering in Storvika, but it seems as the Humans are planning on reoccupying the area. A big bonfire was already in place. Tempting to bring out the matches…
In the background is a war ship participating in the exercise ‘Cold Response’. It had good speed as we arrived, but suddenly stopped. Was watching two crazy mid winter swimmers that interesting?
There was much seaweed on the way out, but wow (!) how clear the water is here up north. Big brother wondered if we did swim out to the small rock in the bay, some 250 m out. But we were there at high tide and didn’t notice any rock. Might have been just as well. Maybe next time!
Back at big brother’s house we could see who had made some of the tracks we saw! Not too shy, these ones…
It is always a good time for a bath in Storvika!