As the weather forecast for the day was good, we decided to visit Kvalvika Beach on the 2nd day of our visit to Lofoten. Sunrise was at 7:50am. Thanks a ton to Cody for his blog “http://www.68north.com” for detailed guidance for hiking routes and beaches of Lofoten. We just followed the guidelines given in his blog to reach Fredvang crossing twin bridges.

Drove further till we saw the red fisher hut.

Found the parking lot and parked our car. There was a wooden sign marking way to Kvalvika beach. Morning sunshine made the whole area look magical.

Trail was muddy and bit boggy in the beginning. Once we crossed the area of trees, we entered the centre of the pass. This area was very muddy even though wooden logs were placed so that we can walk on them. It was wet everywhere and stepping on the grass or moose was a different experience. The roots of the grass/plants were giving feeling of stepping on cushion. But water from below the roots used to come up when we step on them. When we look from far, it seemed like we can easily walk on the grass. But, it was not as easy as it looks as the legs sink when we step on the grass. Luckily kids did not complain as they were very much excited thinking about the beach that we were planning to visit.

We met few people who were coming back from the Beach who told us that the descent might be difficult for our little one as it is too steep. At places where it was slippery, it was difficult to hold hand of the little one and balance ourselves. We saw some animal footprints and an argument started between father and daughter that its of a Wolf. I tried to convince them that footprints are of a dog. Swasti started educating us with her TV program knowledge how to face a wolf. She did not stop there, but started making sounds like a wolf. And Harish’s fatherly protective instincts made him skeptical about going further. I was still trying to convince them that those are foot steps of a Dog.  By the time we reached the top of the pass, we realised that descent is too steep to do with our little one and decided to walk back after seeing the water from the top of the pass.  Got a reason to visit Lofoten again 🙂