A gray day with low cloud cover on our way to Leknes

We don't have a lot of photos to share from the area between Svolvaer and Leknes because the low cloud cover prevented us from seeing anything higher than 100 feet at times, and the sideways rain discouraged us from getting  out of the car. I did get out long enough to look at the German WWII radar installation on the north coast which was used to monitor and direct attacks on the Mermansk convoys.







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