Text and images (c) Robert Barry Francos / 2018
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A few miles from Bodø, Norway, are the Saltsraumen, which is the strongest maelstroms (whirlpools) on earth. It happens twice a day as the time goes in and out. Normally a calm water, the mixing of the currents in a relatively narrow passages causes the water to become agitated and swirl around.
Our hosts' house is directly across from it, and you can see the arching bridge that spans over it from their deck, as you can see in the first picture, taken from that spot. We drove over and got there just as it was starting, with little swirls that reminded me of the reaction to an oar marking its path through the water. We started on the south side of the bridge (Saltsraumen Bru), and then drove over the bridge to the other, which has a path right down to the waterfront.
There were a few people there in the cantilever box girder bridge's shadow, including a couple of them fishing. The area around it seemed quite bucolic and peaceful, in the midst of such watery chaos.
South side of the Bridge:
From the North Side, walking towards the bridge, to the waterfront.
Photos can be made larger by clicking on them
A few miles from Bodø, Norway, are the Saltsraumen, which is the strongest maelstroms (whirlpools) on earth. It happens twice a day as the time goes in and out. Normally a calm water, the mixing of the currents in a relatively narrow passages causes the water to become agitated and swirl around.
Our hosts' house is directly across from it, and you can see the arching bridge that spans over it from their deck, as you can see in the first picture, taken from that spot. We drove over and got there just as it was starting, with little swirls that reminded me of the reaction to an oar marking its path through the water. We started on the south side of the bridge (Saltsraumen Bru), and then drove over the bridge to the other, which has a path right down to the waterfront.
There were a few people there in the cantilever box girder bridge's shadow, including a couple of them fishing. The area around it seemed quite bucolic and peaceful, in the midst of such watery chaos.
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| The bridge from across the Saltfjorden bay. |
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| Crystal clear water |
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| Weird bubbling fungi, here and below |
From the North Side, walking towards the bridge, to the waterfront.
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| There are many houses and barns in Norway that have "green" roofs. |
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