My cousin Alexander on the breakwater of Hogstein Lighthouse on Godøy Island, watching the ships of Tall Ships Races of 2015 passing by as they were leaving the town of Ålesund. We had planned to watch the event from the peak of Mount Storehornet, the highest peak of the Island; but headed for the Hogstein breakwater instead, as we realised the summit of the mountain was shrouded in clouds.
Hogstein Lighthouse at the end of the Hogstein breakwater on the south side of Godøy Island. A lot of people had gathered to see the ships as they were leaving Ålesund. Everybody was excited by the event, and one man on the breakwater was even filming the ships using a drone that he could direct towards the ships, flying 15 meters or so above the surface of the sea.
On this day I had a very nice hike on Godøy Island with my cousin Alexander from America. The Tall Ships Races had been in Ålesund for the last few days, and there was going to be a ship parade as all the ships were destined to leave Ålesund for their next harbor on this particular day. We had planned to climb the mountain of Godøy island in order to get a really good view of the Tall Ships Parade from the very summit of the mountain as the ships were departing. As we were driving towards the island, however, we noticed that much of the mountain on the island was concealed by low clouds, however, and so we decided to watch the tall ships from the breakwater of the Hogstein Lighthouse instead. It was an amazing experience to watch all these ships (Images 1 and 2). This event took some hours, however, and when the ships had departed, we realized that weather improved; hence we decided to climb the mountain after all. We parked my old Mercedes at Godøy Primary School, and had a really nice climb from Valkvæ to the mountain peak called Sloktinden, and thence further on to Storehornet (lit.: "The great horn"). Thereafter we descended the rather steep downhill climb to Djuv, and then walked the tiny road back to the school where the car was waiting for us.
Lower central image: My GPS/Endomondo tracking of this hike superimposed on a Google Earth image. Upper central image: A manually reconstructed track superimposed on a photo of Godøy that I captured a few days earlier. Upper left thumbnail image: My cousin Alexander on the mountain edge called Valkvæegga, with the promontory of Alnes in the background. Upper right thumbnail: On the summit of Storhornet. Middle left image: View towards the town of Ålesund. Middle right and lower left images: View towards Lake Alnesvatnet. Lower right thumbnail: Descending towards Gjuv.
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