Serendipity

 It rained again during the night,but we are snug as a bug in a rug.

There're worse places to wake up in.

We were following the coastal road as much as possible and it was a windey old thing. The MH did well to get up some of the hills, but the rewards were great views! Unknown to us beforehand, one of the fjords we passed through was where the Altmark was boarded during the war. British PoWs from the vessels sunk by Graf Spee were being carried. The Germans didn't reveal this to the Norwegians which was a breach of naval conventions. (Carrying the PoWs wasn't a breach, but not reporting them was.) The British then made their own more serious breach by boarding the ship in these neutral Norwegian waters. We also came across a memorial to four Kiwi airmen killed during a raid on shipping in the fjord. 

Doesn't look too bad here...

...but look the other way! There'd been a fair bit of rain over the last few days

One of the many tunnels. Norwegians love tunnels.

How about that for a place to live?

This area is called the Magma Geopark. A few years back Norway was a massive mountain range. It was heavy enough that rock liquified to magma under the pressure. The magma made its way through the crust before cooling. Then the mountain range eroded leaving these lumps of very dense rock. The rock is quite pure and its sand does not create fertile soil,hence the big bald bits. Valleys got filled with glacial soil which is more fertile.

The head of Jossingfjord. Titanium is and has been mined here and there is a h-e scheme feeding it with power. 

These houses are a few hundred years old, but there have been inhabitants of this ovehang for thousands

The tunnel out. The older part can be slept in!

Looking down the valley at the titanium works

The winding road up with the tunnel on left. Tour busses come up here but fortunately we didn't meet one coming the other way

The diagonal marks a penstock and trail up to the intake you can see up the top

The memorial to the flyers

There are paths up the mountain, and adventure activities include crossing this rope bridge

We found a camp in Egersund so we could shower and charge up. It was right next to a raging river with rapids so pretty noisy.

Showerometer 17