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Bodo was a nother short visit, a nice small place but again, nothing i would come back for really. You also have to remember that we were seeing everything in winter time so in summer im sure there are a lotmore people around and more things to do, infact i know there are because we had a book telling us the activites and tehre were quite a cool few things to do, for example Bodo has the largest number of Sea Eagles in northern Scandinavia and in summer you can go and see them.
there are lots of excursions you can do, like water safaries, whale watching etc but in winter not all the trips run. The main reason we were here in winter was to experience a different side to the towns and to see the Northern Lights which were not far away now. Luke has a few websites that lets us know the solar activity and when the Aurora activity is going to be high.
The latest update was that a massive solar flare had occured and was heading this way so over the next few days we should see something pretty spectacular
Back on the boat it was almost dinner time, just to tell you something quick about the dinner. It was set menu, starter, main, desert, we ate them all in under 15 mins each night which made the waiters laugh and they often ofered us 2nds which was nice.
That evening we went up on deck for most of the night looking for the northern lights, luckily we had an astromoner group on board so we stood behind them listening to all their knowledge on where to look etc.
About 8:30 that evening we saw our first lights, it was cloudy which was a shame but we saw some cool features, columns as they are called shooting out from the main body of the aurora glow. Its really strange seeing the green lights moving around, we always thoguht they moved slowly across the sky but thhey literally make waves, spirals, curves and spikes right infront of your eyes. We were happy to see them and got what we thought was a decent picture for the type of camera we had. If we didnt see anymore at least we saw some. We had our fingers cross for the next few days though as the activity prediction was up to extreme.
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Justyna hello can you reccomended nice accomodation in bodo ? We are students and we are going to visit Bodo in february 2015 . Our main goal is to see northen lights .