From Tromsø, Travis, Lucas and I headed southwest over to Sortland, in a region called Vesterålen. Sortland was the venue for this year's Rotary District 2270 Conference. We had been in touch with District Governor Rolf Johnsen and made arrangements to join the conference. DG Rolf and others graciously welcomed us with them for the weekend and we sincerely appreciate the wonderful hospitality and goodwill.
The city of Sortland is known as the 'Blue City' as many of its buildings all around town are painted blue. Here is the Norwegian Coast Guard base in Sortland where we stayed during our time there.
At the conference
Me, DG Rolf, Lucas, and Travis with a banner exchange
The midnight sun.
We met these two special people at the banquet dinner Saturday night. Øyvind and Silja mentioned they had plans to go out on their fishing boat the next day, and our eyes lit up. We let them know we'd be very interested to join.
The boat
The captain
Birds loved coming in to feast on the fish parts thrown out while cleaning them.
A pollock (or saithe) on the left and a cod on the right
We caught a lot of large pollock on this trip
Big ones
There is about 200 lbs (100 kg) of fish in this bucket. We had fun filleting them later that evening.
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