Sailing back to Stavanger

Fjord shoreline

I love the texture and colors of these rocks along the fjord.

Hengjanefossen

There are dozens, maybe hundreds of waterfalls along the fjord, some of them having worn a path so deep into the cliff face that you don't realize they're there until you're directly in front of them.

This spectacular waterfall starts at the very top of the cliff and falls hundreds of meters to the rocks below.

As I suspected

I do indeed have numerous photos of the very assertive geology surrounding the fjord. Here are a couple more -- you can see where the glaciers that chewed their way through the rock eons ago left their toothmarks.

The cliffs

I have so many pictures of the cliffs on either side of the fjord that I haven't had a chance to even look at most of them, so I may have better shots than this. Still, pretty stunning.

Mountain goat

They're wild, but because of all the tourist boats passing by, they have developed a taste for banana peels and will gather hopefully on the shore when a boat approaches.

Now, THAT'S a fjord!

Lysefjord.

This is the one port on this cruise where I really hoped for nice weather, and I got it. Mostly sunny, warm, perfect for riding on the top deck of a boat and gaping at the cliffs towering over either side of the water and fading in the distance, the waterfalls, the rocky beaches, even some mountain goats!