February
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February 2nd - Aurora Chase Dinner
Guests / Country: 8 from Singapore, Norway, UK and USA.
Weather Tromsø: Part clear / haze. Destination / weather: GuideGunnar`s Camp Aurora / clear.
Aurora activity: 8/10. Aurora show: All over, far south, curtains, spikes, curls, 3 colors dancing (visible for the naked eyes), a couple of small coronas.
Tour km: 85. Tour hrs: 6,5.
February 3rd
Guests / Country: 12 from Germany, Italy, Norway, UK and USA.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy. Destination / weather: Dåfjord / part clear / clear.
Aurora activity: 5/10. Aurora show: Couple of bands on the north sky and straight up, curatins, spikes, curls, but all quite faint.
Tour km: 140. Tour hrs: 6.
February 7th
Guests / Country: 14 guests from Ireland, Australia, Philippines, Brasil, Hong Kong, Austria and UK.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy. Destination / weather: Dividalen / clear.
Aurora activity: 9/10. Aurora show: First it was faint, but all over with spikes, curls, curtains in little pink, and then just before midnight a crazy good show with Rock`n`Roll dancing all over the sky, intense 3 colors dancing and several good coronas.
Tour km: 275. Tour hrs: 8.
One of my guests wasn`t so positive when she showed up at Guides Central, since the Kp-index showed only 1, so when I told her that means noting! since we many times get the best Aurora show when it`s low Kp-index, and she and rest of my guests got surprised... of course, I can never guarantee anything, and can just wait and see what the night will bring.
It´s a natural phenomena, so who can control it..? Not a App!!
So, please quit the Aurora forecasts and Kp-index, and be outdoor and just hope for the best..;)
So, after driving for a while, we finally found clear sky and missed evening first show, and then we just had to wait... it was Northern lights all over the sky, but it was faint, with a couple of spikes who died out again.... but, then she begin to move to the south sky; And then it`s important to set in the most important tool a Aurora Chaser can use; Patience!
It was nice a cold outside with 21 minus degrees, but thanks we had no wind, so it was a beautiful cold night outdoor in this trolly landscape... I made a space for the camp fire in the deep snow, and serve my guests hot drink and local baked lefse, and told them that we will wait until 00.30 before we leave, cause of the south sky Aurora band...
Of course, many of the guests was cold, also with good thermo boots and warm suits, so I heated up the bus so they could stay warm, while rest of us just waited outside.
And we got good paid for the cold time outdoor, since the lady got crazy..;)
February 8th
Guests / Country: Norway, Switzerland, New Zealand, Brasil, UK and USA.
Weather Tromsø: Clear. Destination / weather: Skarsfjord / clear.
Aurora activity: 9/10. Aurora show: All over, far south, curtains, spikes, curls, intense 3 colors Rock`n`Roll and several coronas.
Tour km: 110. Tour hrs: 5,5.
February 10th
Guests / Country: 11 from Germany, UK and USA.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / snow. Destination / weather: Inside Finland +20 km / cloudy / snow.
Aurora activity: 0/10. Aurora show: To cloudy!
Tour km: 350. Tour hrs: 8.
One of those nights, when all weather forecast was totally wrong... got only a glimpse of the lady on the camera...
February 11th
Guests / Country: 14 from Germany, Australia, India, Switzerland, UK and USA.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / snow. Destination / weather: Inside Finland +2km / part clear / clear.
Aurora activity: 9/10. Aurora show: It begins with a curtains low on the west sky, then all over, far south, curtains, spikes, curls, intense Rock`n`Roll in 3 colors (visible for the naked eyes, coronas.
Tour km: 315. Tour hrs: 8.
February 21st
Guests / Country: 14 from Canada, Australia, UK and USA.
Weather Lofoten: Clear / part haze. Destination / weather: Hamnøy, Lofoten / clear / part haze.
Aurora activity: 5/10. Aurora show: Couple of bands on the north sky, then a short show with little pink dancing, curtains, spikes, curls.
Tour km: Just a walk from the cabins. Tour hrs: 3.
After five days relaxing home and in Henningsvær while 2 storms took over the environment, I went to the south part of the Lofoten islands, for be the driver and local knowledge guide for an american photographers group... First we got a couple of rainy days, then we got a "nice" storm on Tuesday, with tricky driving conditions with really bad wind, which was close to through the bus out on Haukland beach... and then we finally got two lovely clear days with sunshine, and tonight we could enjoy a nice Aurora show... not much, but enough for making our guests happy.
Today, the day after, the rain and the wind is back again, and it looks like all Northern Scandinavia have the same bad weather, so the time will show what happen next week, when I am back in Tromsø and ready for a new round with GuideGunnar`s Aurora Chases...
February 26th
Guests / Country: 13 from Germany, Switzerland, France, Hong Kong and UK.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / snow / rain. Destination / weather: Inside Finland +25 km / clear / haze.
Aurora activity: 5/10. Aurora show: Low on the NW sky a beautiful, but short show, with deep green and red colors. Then it faded out and it began to snow...
Tour km: 365. Tour hrs: 8,5.
February 27th
Guests / Country: 14 from Germany, France and Hong Kong.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / snow. Destination / weather: Dåfjord / GG`s Camp Aurora / cloudy / snow / part clear.
Aurora activity: 7/10. Aurora show: A great show between the clouds and snow shower, intense dancing with a short time pink colors dancing curtain, curls, spikes and a half corona.
Tour km: 150. Tour hrs: 7.
A little tricky night with a lot of clouds, strong wind and snow, but I learned my guests how important to have great patience, and we got lucky since we got a huge gap in the clouds several times and my guests got what they came for, a great Aurora show. On the return, we stopped an my home (picture above with Aurora on the south sky, over our sea house), where I in the future will build up Aurora Eye 360 together with my lovely Carol, in a lovely partnership for life and business. Please check and follow the news on https://www.facebook.com/auroraeye360/
February 28th
Guests / Country: 14 from Germany, UK and Hong Kong.
Weather Tromsø: Clear. Destination / weather: Arctic Cathedral / Ramfjord / Balsfjord.
Aurora activity: 10/10. Aurora show: All over, far south, spikes, curls, 3 colors Pink Rock`n`Roll, several coronas.
Tour km: 145. Tour hrs: 5,5.
The show was forecasted to start just after 10 mins we left the Guides Central, so I was thinking of to let my guests to take the lovely pictures of the Arctic Cathedral, the bridge and the city. But, the activity was too good, so it started in wrong direction, over the cable car mountain on the south sky... So, I decided to leave, and of course, then the next wave started so we misset it while we was moving to the next stop...
But, we got well paid later; First 25 km east of Tromsø and then on a new place along the Balsfjord... with a new great Aurora show of intense Pink rock`n`Roll and coronas.
