Laundry Day

Brunch 10am. Well we would have all preferred a few more hours to lay in bed but the promise of pancakes, egg and sausages was enough to get us up anyway. Isolated in the middle of nowhere, with just busloads of tourists to entertain us as they pulled in to the campsite for a toliet break every few hours, we turned to the only facility available to us. The washing room.


We washed, surfed the net, hiked a bit, then relaxed in the common room with snacks. Kate documented everything in macro mode. It was almost time for dinner when we heard the news.

Reindeer sighting. Ok, so we have witnessed many reindeer here in Norway while gazing out the bus windows and of course at the zoo, but this reindeer was on our turf and he provided us with a mission. To get a photo. Armed with our cameras and carrots (ok, maybe not carrots) we crept steathily up the beach, tip-toeing over the large and strangely angular rocks. We reached the jetty without a sighting, so we headed up to the road and started heading back to the camp for dinner. And thats when we saw it in the distance. was it a large dog or could that be a raindeer standing in the middle of the road???

We quickened our pace, then tragedy struck, a car came and scared the reindeer into the bush. We hightailed after it in quick pursuit.

After practising for this exact opportunity all day Kate snapped some great shots of our subject. Mission completed. We left the reindeer in peace and headed back to the site only a few minutes late for dinner.