Hammerfest; Monday, 22 May, 2023

After a hearty breakfast and checking out of the hotel we headed back down to the bus station to pick up the bus on the next leg of our journey, the much shorter hop over to Alta, with a journey time of less than 2 hours 30 minutes, though once again not lacking in stunning scenery.

The bus left on time and was making speedy progress down Kvaløy back towards the Kvalsundbru until the driver had to expertly perform an emergency break to avoid hitting a reindeer that had just wandered out into the middle of the road.

Quickly recovering, but driving a bit more cautiously for a while we continued down across the bridge and into Kvalsund and further along to the settlement of Skaidi where we rejoined the E6 highway that we’d left at this point the previous evening to continue our journey south west down Norway.

The next leg of the journey ran alongside the Goahtemuorjohka river, following it’s flow back up stream and into the mountains, passing by wide slow sections followed shortly after by tight fast flowing rapids and gorges.

From the mountains we descended back down to sea level to meet the edges of the Altafjorden at Rafsbotn and then followed the banks of the fjord round past the airport and into our next destination, Alta.