Lysefjord Cruise

On Saturday I went "on a three hour tour" (Gilligans Island reference) of a noted fjord (pronounced fee-yord) leaving the dock by my flat. I've posted some pictures below but certainly not all the ones I took. In English it's the "light" fjord for the granite shiny rocks gleaming from beneath the water. Hard to capture the scope of these as the fjords are usually narrow with rock walls on both sides thousands of feet high. Water is usually very deep too. 10,000 years ago Norway was under a mile thick layer of ice creating these fjords.  Recommended way to see Norway if you ever make trip as these fjords go deep into the country.

On the way to the fjord.  Got on boat top for pictures.  Wind made it quite cold.

Example of a rock wall from the fjord.  I think the water can be thousands of feet deep.

Three goats on the fjord hillside "grazing". They actually wait for ships to come by and they receive generous amounts of food thrown to them from people on boat.  Here they are picking some up. Moments later hundreds of seagulls came and stole much of it.

Waterfall into fjord.  They say it is 400 feet high, hard to gauge sizes.  See if you can watch video of it below. They collected some of the water from these falls in buckets and we drank it.  Fresh as can be!  All in all a nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon.