Motivation, maybe?

Getting to this place (in northern Norway, the Lofoten Islands, more specifically Kvalvika, meaning Whale Beach), less than a day's hike, though I'd lost ground exercise-wise and was super-SORE the next FOUR days (!), still took the most part of a morning and we started at apparently the wrong spot.



As we left my brother and father "waited" for me and Mum in the hills for a while, and then got right on going as we reached them because they didn't need any more rest, and apparently they thought that was a reason to wish more exercise without rest on me and my Mum; after I gently confronted Dad with this, he said something like, "We haven't rested THAT LONG!".

That is incredibly beautiful...

That looks almost tropical. You wouldn't expect that in Norway.

Well, let you in on the secret; the water is insanely COLD.