March 27: Bugøynes harbor
One of our goals in Bugøynes was to try out king crab. We went from pillar to post trying to locate king crab meat to buy.
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We headed down to the harbor, further east on the mainland, on our quest. This, meanwhile, is the road out to the rest of the world, toward the west.
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Highly rocky.
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View back toward the village.
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Fish racks + fish.
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The harbor jetties and Vadsø beyond, and a glacier beyond that.
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A zoom thereof.
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These are almost like land art. I mean sea art.
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A motley crue of cool ships were at the harbor.
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Including these rather adorable stubby ones.
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Possibly the largest quonset hut I've seen.
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The space between the quonset hut and the cliff nearby.
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QUONSET HUUUUUT
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Seafood => seagulls.
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Inside the fish factory. We succeeded in procuring crab meat there.
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Along the east side of the isthmus. We took a shortcut across this way to get back.
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Back across the harbor to the dockyard.
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We also got a treat: a tour of the crab research facility, led by the two Russian scientists working there. They were investigating what factors affect the growth and health of the crabs, for cultivation purposes.
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This is the largest crab there, who I think they said has been in films, so he's used to handling. We all got to hold him. He's a big guy.
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Tank o' crabs.
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A larger view of the tank room. Most all of the tanks contained crabs, of various sizes/ages.
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An amusing temporary way over a fence.
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The crab meat, back in our kitchen.