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First campsite morning of #DestinationMidnightSun - it's 5 AM. More calm.
June 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Day 10 of #DestinationMidnightSun: kayaking in Lofoten. That's it, that's the (top) post. Have some glimpses in the thread!
June 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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A moment of calm from the first night of our #DestinationMidnightSun road trip. (This isn't midnight sun yet. Where we are, it sets at 23:00 and rises at 3:04!)
June 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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This was a good call! Turns out an uninterrupted night's sleep with zero new bug bites is actually a good way of recharging before a three country drive. #DestinationMidnightSun
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For #DestinationMidnightSun's second night we're having a comedy of "oh look a place to stay OH NO the mosquitoes already live here". After two attempts at setting camp (one involved talking on the phone!) we gave up on behalf of man in man vs nature, and are in a hotel. Mosquitoes could never!!
June 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Loved this shot I took after composing my #DestinationMidnightSun thread, so I'm doing a #NayePhoto single post.
A landscape where snowy fjells reflect in perfectly calm water. Everything is sunset-tinged. A man stands on a spit of land revealed by the low tide, and his reflection is one with the mountains'.
June 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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#DestinationMidnightSun - HOME Trip was 750km long but what's important right now is of course: kitties!!
Fluffy gray Meenie cat being licked by her white and gray shorthair sister Nora as they sit in an IKEA chair. Meenie sticking her head under Nora's chin for cuddles. Meenie licking Nora's face. Nora and Meenie snuggling in the chair, side by side.
June 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Road trip holiday, #DestinationMidnightSun, starts TOMORROW! I am abuzz with excitement and anxiety. What if I forget to pack the one thing that'll make the difference between a great trip and a terrible one?? (There is no such thing; anxiety doesn't care.) But at least I don't need stoma stuff! \o/
June 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Twelve days on the road and it feels like we've been on #DestinationMidnightSun holiday for a month. Whew! Today was another driving day south - we now have "night" (00:30-01:57) as we spend the night in a campsite by the very recognizable mountain Torghatten.
Fjell covered in snow with white, sunny clouds rolling in over it. A road winding its way through forest below snowy mountains. A fjordside road cutting beside a cliff, the sky going from sub overhead to dark clouds. A pink flower, a Heath-spotted orchid!
June 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Today was one of those driving days where the natural beauty around here makes us pull over with a "Wow!" and every kilometer or so. Down from the snowy mountains of Lapphaugen where it felt like late April or so at home, to late May here in Svolvær, where we had a nice walk. #DestinationMidnightSun
A shallow bay with turquoise water with a green promontory dotted with houses. It's sunny. A yellow house on the water. Behind it, dramatic mountains, the ones further away mostly snow covered. Yellow, white and pink flowers in front of dark blue sea with islands far out. The sky is clear. Tightly clustered red houses on the dockside under sharp green mountains in sunshine.
June 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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We like listening to stories when we travel together, and for #DestinationMidnightSun I'm excited to get to introduce Skuld to Wolf 359! I listened to the whole podcast two years ago, and loved it. However I only remember the broadest of strokes of the story, so it's basically new to me too!
June 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Today's #DestinationMidnightSun drive has, in fact, brought us north of the Arctic Circle! It only took 690km (8.5h just driving). Another gorgeous day. I listened to a cuckoo while wading in a lake, we saw a profusion of wildflowers, and learned you flash oncoming drivers when you spot reindeer.
Mirror calm water rippling out towards a forest shore. It is clear and shallow over a gravel bottom. Yellow dandelions, white Queen Anne's Lace, some pink flowers, nettles and very green grass growing on a hill high over a lake. A mama and baby reindeer crossing a road with forest on either side. (Taken by the passenger of a stationary car.) The wide Pite River glittering in the afternoon-looking evening sun.
June 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Day 11 of #DestinationMidnightSun and we have turned south. It's 24 hours home the fast way, but we're taking a more scenic route, which will take up to 36 hours. Gotta make it back home before work on Monday! So today was all roads (one road is a ferry for a bit) and a campsite with a view.
Ferry view of calm blue sea and jagged mountains. Snowy fjell, a line of forest, and then a small community on the bank of a fjord. Road leading to a snowy mountain. Stopped by the side of the road to look at the snowy mountains, calm lake, and small trees and buttercups growing between us and the view.
June 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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#DestinationMidnightSun Day 8: the view en route to the bathroom at 2am, and a last, stunning hike in the sun. Once the wind picked up it was quite icy, but before that I was ridiculously warm. Then one final stop at the famous Bergsbotn view, before turning south and leaving the beautiful island.
Perfectly still water reflecting snow capped mountains and a pale peach sky. A vast view of a fjord dotted with flat islands surrounded by turquoise water, while several chains of pointy mountains rise beyond. The sky is so blue. A rounded mountain sloping down into the water. A forested bay surrounded by mountains, picture taken from high above.
June 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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#DestinationMidnightSun has reached its end! After 14 days we came back home to our cats yesterday, and have been recharging since. Here's a last collection of photos from the road, where we drove into the rain, and out again the other side into what felt like a completely different kind of summer.
Big fat raindrops in the air over the road, falling from a cloudy sky with sunlight breaking through. A wet forest road heading towards a curtain of rain. A forest road under perfectly blue skies. A road lined by summer fields. It's heading into forest. The sky above is perfectly blue without a cloud.
June 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Today we're driving all day, but yesterday (13 of #DestinationMidnightSun!) we did a hike up to a hole before hiking all day.

It was a really, REALLY big hole in the Torghatten mountain. With a great view! (The drive also had great views.) 📷🧵
Wide stone stairs going down to the ocean. Stairs leading up to steep cliff with a massive cave in it. View from just before the cave opening of granite stairs down to some green hills and islands scattered on water. A SUPER big, almost door-shaped hole in the mountains. There are stairs below, and you can see teeny tiny people on them. The view is of a islands in the ocean, with the open horizons beyond.
June 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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#DestinationMidnightSun Day 7 in one word: Segla.

In more words: happy midsummer! We celebrated with a hike up to where we got a fabulous view of the iconic mountain Segla, "The Sail of Senja". Skuld scrambled the last 100m, I kept to my comfort zone. It was so cool to be up there!
View from the "saddle" of the Hesten (horse!) over towering Segla to the right, then over the small town of Fjordgård (which is next to a fjord, of course). Dramatic tooth-shaped Segla with snow capped mountains in the distance. There's snow around the bottom of Segla, and among the boulders in the foreground. Stupendously dramatic Segla from the other side, where it just shears off into the fjord. The peak is 639 meters above the ocean below, and it's sat in a ridge of sharp peaks that aren't quite as tall. Another view of Segla, now looking rounded, from behind a bunch of white queen Anne's lace flowers.
June 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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There aren't enough get across how wonderfully peaceful and joyful it was to kayak around Sommarøy (literally)! It was so calm, the kayaks just sliding through the crystal water, sometimes gently rocked on the ocean swells. Coral sand beaches and looming cliffs and - freedom. #DestinationMidnightSun
In the foreground: a clutch of yellow flowers. Beyond, a white sand beach with one red and one yellow kayak. Under gray skies, red house stands in a green field. It's on a small island with white sand beaches (though you can't tell from the picture). The picture is taken from far out on shallow, turquoise water. Gray skies, the elegant arch of a bridge, and green water. A red kayak prow pointing at a tiny lighthouse out on a stretch of grass and sand - a low island. Beyond it, the dramatic double triangle shape of the island of Håja hides its tallest peak in the heavy gray clouds.
June 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Day 4 of #DestinationMidnightSun: Went from Skibotn to Sommarøy by way of Tromsø, with a stop at the Arctic Cathedral. There are kittiwakes nesting on the bridge next to our campsite, a couple of ptarmigans were sand bathing by the road, and the eiders have tiny chicks! Also: seashells and flowers.
4 am, Skibotn. Absolutely calm water reflecting snow capped fjells. Wildflowers growing on a steep hill into a high fjell forest. A wooden footbridge crosses a small river. Beyond, a mountain rises to clouds, still mostly covered in snow. Scattered seashells, mussel shells and pieces of coral and seaweed on white sand. Camp dinner: sausage & potato salad with a small pepper (raw) and a mug of grape juice. The picnic table the wooden plate is on green grass on a bay of turquoise water going deep green where dramatic islands loom under gray clouds.
June 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Today's #DestinationMidnightSun went through three countries, and was also a journey from summer to spring (no leaves on the birches!) and back again. We're expecting rain, but it's so warm and sunny now we stopped way ahead of our original destination of Tromsø, and are camping by a fjord beach. 📷🧵
Tiny birch leaves and buds. Out of focus: a roaring river. A bush on a little hump of shore surrounded by shards of ice in the water. The far shore is all low, snowy mountains. A dark green tent, inflated by wind overlooking choppy water and snowy mountains. It's next to a red cabin with a pair of deer sticking out in a "person relaxing in a chair right out of sight" way, not a "accidentally found a corpse" way. A low, snow capped mountain over a bay.
June 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Day 6 of #DestinationMidnightSun we took a ferry from the island of Sommarøy to the island of Senja, and spent the whole day exploring by car - following hand painted signs to unexpectedly dazzling views, having the weather change completely when we doubled back, and seeing so many stunning sights!
A small green island with a white sand beach and handful of houses. In the distance, mountains still capped in snow. The sky is mostly blue, and the shallows are turquoise. Two small bushes of the yellow flower arctic rose in front of a rock stained with yellow lichen. In the back, jagged mountains. A mountain with a thin waterfall cascading down to a lake still mostly covered in ice! The surrounding dwarf birches are bare. A stunning sunny bay with a small harbor with a few houses, and majestic mountains in the background.
June 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM