Svinøya - Aukra

Yesterday we made use of the calm to canoe over to the neighbouring town of Elnesvagen, a quick walk up to the shop and canoe back again! We had considered taking the bus in to the closest city Molde but seemed to be get baffled by the bus stops so canoes seemed the easier form of transport!! A three mile paddle, long enough! Glad that quickstep isn't a rowing boat or we would struggle!!

Our little canoe adventure!

Elnesvågen is home to several large factories and has a few nice shops so we could top up with stores and we found a boots pharmacy to buy a tick remover...Just in case! We've already seen quite a few ticks, and three or four snakes. Amanda had never seen a snake in the wild, and the novelty quickly has worn off when she realised there are poisonous ones in Norway!

Daniel watching over the Barbequed Pasta Bake!!

Thankfully for both of us we haven't seen too many spiders, yet.... Something neither of us are keen on, to say the least!
After our paddle in the canoes we headed to Aukra, where we were very kindly invited out for dinner by the family of one of the men who had been on the RS Mærsk in 2014 when we had been towed. Very lovely people who have made us feel at home on Aukra. Later today we will head north a little to the boatyard where we hope to get lifted out of the water, and over the next while we will have more of an idea of what will happen with the engine. Depending on how quickly we are moving again we would like to head north to see the midnight Sun, which would mean reaching the arctic circle by the longest day.

Aukra boat club