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Great catch!

On my 2-3.30am anchor watch - it's absolutely amazing here in this quiet anchorage and doing my watch in the middle of the night, makes you realise how truly quiet it is here. Something you don't always get to appreciate with 16 people on board!
This time though, I have more trouble enjoying the quiet - after only 2 hours sleep before my watch and with the knowledge of a 5am departure to Sagfjord (meaning an hour and 15 at most of sleep after my watch), I am struggling to keep awake sitting outside and resort to watching a House episode on our (by now) unmissable iPad...

5am - up again and although moving around, wouldn't classify this as being awake. Which probably accounts for me not taking any photos of an amazing sight this morning: while weighing anchor, the chain comes up with two starfish clinging to the links for dear life! As soon as the first one rises out of the water, he dives for safety and lets go of the chain. Number two must be as asleep as I am...even though he is almost at the bowroller, he is still stubornly clinging on.
I don't want to crush him, so go to get the winch handle to gently push him off. A good and noble thing to do of course, but why not take a photo first! Silly, silly, silly!
Just not my time of day this...

We easily motor over to Sagfjord then, just north of Eidet where we were last week. It turns out to be an amazing spot: there is a small village, with maybe a dozen houses, two docks, some small boats and fishing boats, and green fields surrounding it all. They might actually be working the fields, as not long after anchoring, I hear an old tractor coughing and puffing and see it taking off into the fields.
The hiking is fantastic, the kayakers feel they have arrived in paradise with lots of nooks and crannies to explore and to top it all off, a fantastic waterfall coming down from the glacier above. Even the anglers are having a fantastic time and are landing some good fish during the day.
While I am about to serve the fish risotto with yesterday's catch, loud and enthusiastic cries carry down from the deck: Bazyl, our shy and second youngest on the crew, has hooked something big. As he hauls his catch in and the fish breaks the surface, everybody goes ballistic: it's a halibut and a big one too (well over 8kgs - photos to follow)!!
We've been chasing the elusive halibut for ten days with our enthusiastic Scottish crew, without result, and on day two, this little guy hauls it in like he does it for a living. Everybody is ecstatic and praise comes from everywhere.
This seals it: Sagfjord is the place to be!

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