We left Bodo at 3pm on the ferry Trollfjord heading for Svolvaer on the Lofoten islands. 
It was going to be a 6 hour journey, luckily the forecast was for calm seas. 
The ferry stopped at Stamsund to pick up and drop off passengers and cargo.
Shortly after leaving port it began to get dark and we went out on deck. Suddenly the sky was filled with Northern Lights. They appeared as smokey grey, cloudy streaks moving around the sky. The vivid green you see in photographs is only seen through the lens of a time lapse camera, very rarely with the naked eye. We could see tinges of green and violet, we were very lucky. Unfortunately our cameras were not set up to capture the lights on photographs.
It was a wonderful experience, everyone on board was in awe of such a spectacular phenomenon. Shortly after we docked in Svolvaer and found our hotel near the quay.
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