Loshavn Norway





We arrive early in the morning in deep fog (3 hours before this picture was taken) after sailing 20 hours continuesly in fog banks. Farvorite activity: taking bearing of the sound of coaster engines. Luckily none of them were on collision course, but it was a pretty scary experience and lead to my father and I sketching a distributed anti collision ship control system.





The city behind the fog that our GPS (definitly not our eyes or compas) had guided us to was Loshavn. An old pirate town in the southern Norwegian skerries.





This town used to be rich of the goods taken over from the English fleet when passing Skagerak. Now only the beautiful white houses and natural harbour witness its history.





Its function today is to be a refugium for rich Norwegians taking a break from their stressful lives.





Look at this view ! You can almost smell the small pinetrees growing on the skerries.





Looking south through the skerries.





Ravagen was anchored directly to the cliff enjoying the natural protection of the skerries (it can be seen to the right in the panorama). How can such a beatiful spot be so deserted ?