In moments such as these I quickly give myself a hard word, and reminded myself how lucky I am to see and experience these out of reach places. I was expecting to see a ferocious whirlpool but seeing it for the first time didn’t reach the colossal expectations I had built for myself. I walked over to where I could get a panoramic view of the area but it wasn’t quite what I had hoped for. I could not recall seeing a whirlpool before, other than on a tiny scale in my bathroom sink, so I was all fired up to go. (I may or may not have taken those figures from Wikipedia…!). Up to 400 million m³ (tonnes) of seawater forces its way through a three kilometre long and only 150 meter wide strait every six hours, with water speeds reaching 37 kilometres per hour. Saltstraumen is located outside of the city, about 20 minutes drive away in a narrow channel - connecting the outer Saltfjord with the large Skjerstadfjord. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool in Norway. Literary fans will enjoy knowing it was first introduced into English by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story A Descent into the Maelstrom in 1841. You can go scuba diving, kayaking, paragliding, hiking, but I had only one thing on my mind… I wanted to take a RIB boat over Saltstraumen maelstrom, the world’s strongest tidal current.Ī whirlpool goes by the name of maelstrom in Norwegian. Being surrounded by all this meant one thing – ADVENTURE! So when I found myself in Bodø for a couple of days on a research trip with Scandinavian tour operator, Scandinavia Only, I was on a mission to find out more.Īfter arriving in town, the proximity it has to the fjords was the first thing I noticed, together with mountains and the alpine landscape.
Basically it’s a means for getting from A to B. There are quite a few things to do in Bodø that range from the arty to the adventurous, but its limelight is stolen by its more attractive neighbours, in particular, the beautiful Lofoten Islands.īodø is the northern terminus for the train network in Norway, so people stopping here are usually heading further north from the city’s small airport. It’s not well visited by tourists and I wondered if that was correlative with the amount of things to do there… Before going to Bodø in Northern Norway I wasn’t sure what to expect.
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