Adventure of the Seas - Stavanger, on board Rygertroll, Part 5

Pictures of the fjord cruise on the Rygertroll, continued.  It was a very nice day indeed. 

Sailing through the islets.

That looked like somebody's summer house, I think.  No access other than by boat.

Scenic boat ride.

That was a fjord Roll-on-Roll-off ferry.  Could see trucks on board the RoRo.

We are approach the Lysefjord bridge - a suspension bridge in Rogaland, Norway. Construction of the bridge began in 1995 and was finished in 1997. It has a main span of 446 meters and the depth of the deck is 2.7 meters. The supporting towers are 102 meters tall, and are made of reinforced concrete. (information from wikipedia)

We would be going under the bridge.  We could see the vehicles driving across.

Not sure what this was.

That must be the entrance to the fjord.

We could see other boats on their way out.  Earlier sailings.

Beautiful day!

If you watched the videos earlier, we sailed around this boat.  Not sure why.  To take a closer look at the shoreline?

We were in the fjord now.  The boat could go rather close to the cliffs.

What if the cliffs fall down?

All taking photos.

Somebody carved the rock like a hot knife through butter.

Natural geological features.  Fascinating stuff.

There it is - Pulpit Rock!

See it?  If you are up there, you could wave at us.

Don't try jumping down though.  I can't guarantee your survival.

Legend has it that if seven sisters were to marry seven brothers, the rock would collapse.

Very fascinating structure.  I would imagine that some may have jumped down before.

Pulpit Rock on the right side.

Shortly after the Pulpit Rock, the boat turned back and headed straight back to port.  The ride back was shorter, since we didn't slow down to look at sights.  Still, it took about an hour or so.

Move on to Part 6 where we walked around town.

Adventure of the Seas - Stavanger, on board Rygertroll, Part 4

Part 4 - Pictures of the fjord cruise on board the Rygertroll

Here is the map showing our route, from Stavanger, up Lysefjorden and back.  We won't be going all the way, just past the Pulpit's Rock and we turn back.  The round trip would take about 3 hours.

We were still waiting for some last minute passengers.

And we sail.  On the way out, there were some more cruise ships in port!   What's this ship on the left of the picture?

Fred Olsen Cruise Lines.  Interesting.

She is the MS Braemar.  Completed in 1993, she is 24,344 GT and she is 195M long, almost the length of the Horizon.   When built, the ship was 19,000GT, but she was stretched to its current size in 2009.

On the way out of the harbour.

Goodbye, Braemar.

We sail further away.  You can see the Adventure of the Seas.  Really long and tall.

We head to the fjords.  Check out my videos for the ride.

This ferry (catamaran) can go fast, up to 30 knots.

Very calm waters.  Great.

Powerful engines.  I can't tell how fast we were sailing though.

Some certificate - Rygertroll.  I wonder, why troll?  I guess this is Norway.  Even their boats become trolls.

Going around some island.

The onboard cafe was now open.

Somme chocolates and biscuits for sale.  Nothing very much.

Drinks.  No hot food.

25 Kroner.

As the ferry was not that big, we could go into the nooks and corners.

Move on to part 5