First sea eagle sighting :)

Yesterday was the calm after the storm - well, relatively speaking anyway.
After 3 days of unrelenting wind and rain we woke up to blue, blue skies and not a cloud in sight. Still a fresh wind coming from the south west but the sun's really hot when it's out.

I went for a long walk, first to Steinset and then, through the forest, to Froya church. The sound of water was amazing! Everywhere waterfalls, streams and water glistening on the volcanic rocks in the sun.

The forest was the reason P came to Kalvag in 2001 for the first time on a felting project. There had been a hurricane in the 1990s which had felled a lot of trees and then the machinery which was brought in to remove them caused even more damage. So the felters symbolically mended the forest by making roots, tree limbs, fungi, vines, flowers, even fish in nets, from felted wool. (I can just imagine your expression Rocky!!)
Anyway - after that P got work for a couple of months chef ing in Knutholmen: the local bar/restaurant/hotel: and she met J. And that was that. She came home for a little while to sort things out and then moved over here. She worked in Domstein, the local fish processing factory, until they renovated the seahouse, which was J's grandparents', and she opened the shop at Easter 2003.

So - back to the sea eagle sighting. They are rearing their young at present on the little skerries in the fjords so I was really pleased to see the one yesterday coming over the top of the hill behind the forest. It didn't have a white tail so I am reliably informed that it would have been a juvenile.

I spent the afternoon sitting in the garden reading - just like being on my hols! Had trout burgers and home grown pak choi stirfry for tea. Washed down with lovely chilled white wine (and it was only Tuesday!).

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