We stayed the last two night at a cabin just outside of Skibotn with Corrie's uncle Steve. It's darker there and a little drier which we hoped would improve our chances of seeing the aurora.
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| For my Alaskan readers: This is a monument to Gunnar Kaasen and Balto of the 1925 Nome serum run. It turns out Gunnar came to Alaska from Skibotn, Norway. |
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| On the road to Finland. |
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| The sunset in Finland looking south into Sweden at about 1:15 pm. |
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You may want to adjust the brightness of your monitor for these next photos.
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| The Big Dipper is finally in the right place again... |
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| Sadly pictures can't show the way the ribbons of light move and dance. |
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| There was some neat interplay between the clouds and the aurora that I don't remember noticing when I was younger. I only remember seeing good aurora on perfectly clear nights in AK. |
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The bright spot between the branches is Jupiter.
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| We forgot about getting ourselves in a picture until the show was almost over. |
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| We learned how to play Backgammon while waiting for holes in the clouds. |
I'm jealous. During my trip to Norway I was too far South and surrounded by too many city lights to see the Aurora.
ReplyDeleteSorry you missed them Shannon. The lights do come a lot further south over the western hemisphere... You could just drive up to Northern BC, and there is a really nice hot springs there to watch them from too...
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