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  1. #1
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    Hey, if you're going to the fjords I wanna come too!

    We live in Oslo, which does have a fjord as such, but not the fantastic steep mountainsides you find on the west coast. This is a Unesco World Heritage site and apparently considered one of the best places in the world (!) to kayak:
    http://www.nettavisen.no/friluftsliv...cle1133253.ece
    http://blink.dagbladet.no/reise/inde...Tag&tag=kajakk

    Up north also has some amazing places to kayak, with mountains rising straight out of the ocean, white sandy beaches and a zillion little islands to paddle around. Only kayaked there for a few days last year but I have to go back. We stayed at this place, the "Sea nomad":
    http://www.havnomaden.no/
    It's a 2 day drive from here though.

    Hey, I regularly post photos from my everyday kayaking on Facebook, so if anyone would like to see them, look me up through the TE page there. I'd like to see yours
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  2. #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by lph View Post
    Hey, if you're going to the fjords I wanna come too!

    We live in Oslo, which does have a fjord as such, but not the fantastic steep mountainsides you find on the west coast. This is a Unesco World Heritage site and apparently considered one of the best places in the world (!) to kayak:
    http://www.nettavisen.no/friluftsliv...cle1133253.ece
    http://blink.dagbladet.no/reise/inde...Tag&tag=kajakk

    Up north also has some amazing places to kayak, with mountains rising straight out of the ocean, white sandy beaches and a zillion little islands to paddle around. Only kayaked there for a few days last year but I have to go back. We stayed at this place, the "Sea nomad":
    http://www.havnomaden.no/
    It's a 2 day drive from here though.

    Hey, I regularly post photos from my everyday kayaking on Facebook, so if anyone would like to see them, look me up through the TE page there. I'd like to see yours

    Oh, I'm going to the fjords and oslo! I love places with a zillion little islands. And I want to try our your husband's dex, it looks beautiful. I think you need a matching one.

    I paddled in a place in Maine that claimed it had the only fjord on the east coast of the US, but it was totally lying.

  3. #3
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    I think the southernmost fjord is in Quebec, up near the Saguenay and Tadoussac. I've kayaked there, and it seemed like a fjord to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
    I think the southernmost fjord is in Quebec, up near the Saguenay and Tadoussac. I've kayaked there, and it seemed like a fjord to me.
    Mount Desert Island in Maine claims it has a fjord with the Sommes sound.

    Keyword is claimed.

    They have a small section of 1,000 foot high cliffs. I feel like posting pics all over the place today.















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    Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
    I think the southernmost fjord is in Quebec, up near the Saguenay and Tadoussac. I've kayaked there, and it seemed like a fjord to me.
    I think I've been there! I can't remember exactly where the fjord was, but I know it was in that area on our drive to Labrador. I know we were in Rimouski and Baie-Comeau on the other side at various points, but it's been a few years and the various trips are blurring together (Labrador, Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay). I'll have to ask my friend which fjord it was, but in the middle of February I wasn't much in the mood to stand outside and admire for too long. I remember it being super windy, so that didn't help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NoNo View Post
    I think I've been there! I can't remember exactly where the fjord was, but I know it was in that area on our drive to Labrador. I know we were in Rimouski and Baie-Comeau on the other side at various points, but it's been a few years and the various trips are blurring together (Labrador, Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay). I'll have to ask my friend which fjord it was, but in the middle of February I wasn't much in the mood to stand outside and admire for too long. I remember it being super windy, so that didn't help.
    http://www.fjord-en-kayak.ca/PagesFr...kayak-mer.html

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    It's been confirmed, that's the fjord we crossed. And as I remembered, it was bitterly cold. What are the odds of that??

    I'm not sure, but I think this was my view of it, which obviously wasn't very good. It was on our way up to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador.
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    we have fjords in Maryland
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