Today we visited Stavanger, a city set on Norway's southwest coast. Stavanger boasts a rich history dating back to the last ice age. Known as one of Europe's most interesting old towns, Gamle Stavanger's cobblestone streets are adorned with a collection of wooden buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries.
We hadn't booked any excursions for this day, but decided, the last minute to do the Fjord Foray by RIB at midday. According to Wikipedia a rigid inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed with a rigid hull bottom joined to side-forming air tubes that are inflated with air to a high pressure so as to give the sides resilient rigidity along the boat's topsides. The design is stable, light, fast and seaworthy. The inflated collar acts as a life jacket, ensuring that the vessel retains its buoyancy, even if the boat is taking on water.
We had taken a similar ride on an RIB when we cruised to Iceland this past summer. However, this foray was quite a different story. With temperatures in the low 30s and the boat speed pretty high the wind chill was quite intense. And where did we have our heated gloves and socks? On the ship of course - poor planning!
Here are a few pics of the town, followed by the awesome, close-up beauty of the fjords as seen by RIB. I didn't get any pics of the actual town by foot as we were so cold from our return from the RIB ride.
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| Note the Burger King and 7-Eleven |
Joan and I got to sit in the front of the boat (more exciting), while the other passengers enjoyed the wind break we provided 😏.
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| "Pulpit Rock" |
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