A Light Show to Remember

There are so many compelling reasons to travel beyond the Arctic Circle in winter. Our reason was clear from the outset, orca, whales and their winter feeding on North Sea herring. All else is a bonus.

On our first night in Norway, we travelled by ferry from Tromsø to Skjervøy, and that's when the northern light show began. For the hours we braved the cold on deck, we were enthralled, first with the lights of Tromsø shimmering over water, and then by the ethereal green curtains of light that seemed to emerge from nowhere, dance across the sky with abandon, then disappear without a trace.

On and off all evening, from the ferry and then in the sky above us in Skjervøy, the light show continued.

No single image could ever convey just how dynamic the Northern Lights really are. They dance and sweep and shimmer to their own rhythm. Sometimes the lights lingered. Sometimes they swept fleetingly across the sky. Sometimes they were like storm clouds shedding veils of ethereal rain.

We came for the orca, the whales, and the herring, but that bonus of witnessing the aurora borealis will always be a light show to remember.


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