Goodbye, Internets...at least for a while

[luzula]

Tomorrow we're buying lots of groceries and then taking a helicopter flight up to the more remote research station, and I won't have internet for almost four weeks. : (

We've spent the last week on a low peak called Rakkasvare with our noses to the ground, doing inventories of plants in various ways. It's fun but also somewhat repetitive and hard on your back and knees. I am sunburned and wind-blown.

We had a day off yesterday and went across the border to the coastal town of Narvik. Norway is totally exotic! For one thing, there are lots of small private cabins dotted all over the mountains. In Sweden the only buildings allowed in the mountains are hiking cabins that are available for everyone to use (for a fee) and cabins for reindeer herders from the indigenous people. Another exotic thing is the Norwegian fjords. The mountains have steep slopes right down into the sea, and for some reason I thought there'd be alpine vegetation all the way down. But no--at the bottom there is lush temperate vegetation. It felt weird to move so fast between different types of nature.

I've been trying to write a bit, but I think I'll manage better once there's no internet. Also, I'm itching to record podfic again--I was kind of fed up with it after amplificathon, but I'm over that now. But I can't, because I will have zero privacy (plus, I don't have my recording equipment with me).

Anyway, goodbye for now! I'll miss you guys. *waves*

For now, please comment at the LJ entry.

Comments

[exeterlinden.livejournal.com]

Have fun up there in the North :D

I think maybe I've seen some fjords like the ones you describe - it looked exactly like the mountains and the vegetation just continued under the water, pretty neat.

[luzula]

Yeah, I will!

And I think the fjords are like that up in northern Norway. I guess at the latitude I am now, the Gulf Stream keeps the land warm down at the sea level.