The PaddlerUK magazine December 2015 issue 5 | Page 44

PADDLERUK 44 Northern Norway “But if in all the thousands of miles I have paddled I were forced to make a recommendation for you to go and visit, I would offer you one location which is very close to my heart and this would be northern Norway, this is not just because of the Tolkienesque Mountains, which run all the way down to the ocean and it would not be because of the many hidden white sandy beaches and crystal clear waters. “The thing that entrances me the most about northern Norway is the contrasts of light, something ever changing and quite entrancing, I can sit for hours and just watch on how the light changes the way we perceive our surroundings. “The area is a continual archipelago of islands and the coastline is deeply riven by fjords cutting cleanly through the mountain peaks. It’s a beautiful place for any paddler to aspire to. ” Jeff Allen www.seakayakingcornwall.com “Being asked where is the best place you have paddled is to an expedition paddler a nightmarish question. Why? Well, the thing with sea kayaking isn’t about where you’ve been but where you are going, we sit forward facing in our sea kayaks, leaving the places we have been before, in our wake, we are quite different to ocean rowers who are continually looking backwards to where they were.