Jul 28 - Retruning to Sandnessjøen.
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Departure

Lesjaskog - 23

Lesjaskog - 24

Sandnessjøen - 25

Sandnessjøen - 26

Sandnessjøen - 27

Sandnessjøen - 28

Back to Westwood - 29

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Returning to Sandnessjøen after some early morning shooting.

The logs for shooting is just 10 meters from the veranda.

Martin is having a go at the beer cans.

The log with the targets.

Roy is trying his hand on the cans, but they are hard to hit.

Farewell to Roy's quay for now.

Out the fiord.

Settlement. The red building is the Seløy Kystferie, a holiday resort.

We are passing one of the many bridges that connects the islands. This one is the Seløybrua.

There are literally hundreds of the islands.

Time to visit the poet priest, Petter Dass. This is a big complex.

Petter Dass in all his glory.

His pulpit in the church or alter.

One of the fancy paintings in the church.

The museum is cut out of the solid rock by an enormous chain saw.

 

Martin at a view point.

Martin and the amazing wall.

Here is the way it is cut out of the mountain. The museum to the left in the slot between the mountain walls.

The stone monument  of Petter Dass.

Details of the the wall an the left hand side of the museum.

Petter Dass himself in the stone monument.

Detail of the stone wall.

Close up of the traces made by the stone chain saw.

The museum itself.

The yard of the building of Petter Dass.

The Russian graveyard is just outside Sandnessjøen.

Here is the stone monument.

Details in Russian and Norwegain.

The graveyard is divided in two parts. One for those identified and those who were not.

Here is the grave of one of the identified Russian POWs.

A lone cross.

The stone tablet with inscriptions with both languages, English and Russian.

Martin and the stone tablet.

We were back in Sandnessjøen. There are bridges and ferries that connects all the islands. You get to Tjøtta from here.  

On Fridday, July 29th, it was time to return to Westwood.

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