Today we sailed along the magnificent Sognefjord where at times the water is over 1,000 metres deep. The scenery was breathtaking with steep mountains on either side, many waterfalls cascading down from the high peaks hidden by cloud & glacial valleys, river valleys & hanging valleys - there's some geography for you! Much of the lower part of the mountains were covered in trees & occasional huts & houses were scattered among them.
We docked at 2.30pm about 17 kms up the fjord & then boarded the zodiacs in groups of 10 to do some walks along the side of the fjord. There was the easy walk, the medium & the long. We 6 chose the long 6 km walk which was on a good path/road but did require crossing a stream & scrambling over a rock fall that was across the path. It was a beautiful setting in fresh mountain air. We met 2 friendly ponies like Shetlands, who specially came onto the road to greet us, passed some goats who just starred at us & we ate wild raspberries on the way. Mostly it was fine & the rain just started a bit when we reached the jetty to wait for the zodiacs to pick us up & take us back to the ship.
After dinner we docked again at Flam on another arm of the same fjord. We were able to wander ashore for a look around this tourist town before getting an early night as tomorrow we set off just after 7am!
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