- How does it look like? - Hey man.
- Yo.
- Have you ever seen the Northern Lights and do you know how and why this phenomena occurs?
I'm about to find it out and will enjoy it in full beauty.
To see this we have to go far North over the Artic Circle.
I'm going there together with nature photographer Hans Markus Antson.
At the moment he is behind the camera, come here in front of the camera.
- Exactly a year ago we headed to the Northern Norway with Kristo Elias to capture the Northern Lights and to come back with three video stories for Estonian TV show called "Ozone".
The main organizer for the trip was my good friend Helari Hellenurm, who put together all the trip company.
- Very good. The journey will be a long one, so let's get started!
- I'm not going. It's cold. I'm not going.
- Our trip to Lofoten islands has already started.
Right now we are on the ferry, which takes us to Helsinki and today we will drive almost 700km to the North, to Kemi where we will stay the night.
It seems that today is the greatest chance to see the Northern Lights, because Lofoten islands is fully covered with clouds, but today it promises a clear sky.
And tomorrow we will drive also almost 700km even more to the North. Then we will arrive to Lofoten islands.
Let's see what's going to happen during the trip.
- That went easy. How much did you pay for that?
- Meelike, did you give thick or thin envelope?
- He looked really suspicious.
- The envelope or this person?
It wouldn't be a proper road trip if there wouldn't be any one sleeping in the back seat.
- Brown to the beige. - Copy.
- Only 65km to our today's final destination. - Super!
- Very good. We have been driving in the complete darkness in last 4 hours, more-more to the North.
Unfortunately we haven't seen any Northern Lights, because the sky is cloudy and it is constantly snowing but lets hope for the best!
Wohoo, finally we can stretch ourselves!
- A true winter wonderland! Look how high are the snowdrifts.
- Finally, 8:30PM we arrived to our first night's stay, where we are going to stay overnight.
The whole day has been cloudy and we haven't seen any Northern Lights, but it is really snowy and beautiful here.
So here are 12 people all in one room, we barely fit in here.
This is how it looks like, 12 people in one room.
Early morning hours. Everyone is eating right now, muesli etc.
Food and cooking is very well thought out, even the coffee machine is packed for the trip, so that in the morning all would have the energy.
- Yes, without any coffee there will be no Northern Lights.
Now we are going to film the drone shots.
Meanwhile we arrived to Sweden and the view what unfolds is so beautiful, all the snow-covered views.
We have now arrived to Sweden and we are located at 66 degrees and 33 minutes.
Which means that we are exactly at the Polar Circle.
From here to the North there is half a year dark, in other words "polar night"
Luckily the polar night has just ended and we are going to have some daylight.
Exactly 3 hours during the day.
Second day's afternoon and finally the sky is clear.
Yesterday it was cloudy, we didn't see any Northern Lights.
But now, exactly during the sunset, it is 13:16. The sun has already set here at the Polar Circle.
And we saw a really beautiful sunset, a really colorful one, and the sky is fully clear now!
Approximately 45 min ago, when we did our last pit stop it was -6°C, right now during the sunset it is already -25°C.
So it is really-really cold right now. Even the toes are a bit cold in this car.
Raindeer.
Crossing the road.
We could barely stop the car, to avoid the accident.
We just arrived to Norway and crossed the Norwegian and Swedish boarder.
Here the roads are much tighter and it started to snow again.
And we arrived to the mountains.
We arrived to our accommodation, which is located exactly in the starting point of the Lofoten isalands.
Exactly from this bridge you will get to the Lofoten islands.
Right now the sky is still clear, let's hope there will be Northern lights too.
This is our one house box, and this is another one.
Here are our all food supplies.
This is a lot.
They are putting it all in the fridge. I have no idea how they will fit it all in there.
Now everything is in place here too and all the thing are set.
Here is the charging station.
After we arrived to Lofoten islands we started with the games to find out more about each other. Because most of the people were still strangers for me.
- Everyone smile now! - Make some joke, then it will be easier to smile.
Otherwise it is forced.
- I'm filming at the moment.
- What the heck.
- Everyone put your snow pants close to you and when there will be an alarm then everyone should get ready.
Exactly like the firefighters.
At the moment it is 11 o'clock in the evening and we are in our Northern Lights monitoring headquarters.
We have opened all kind of webpages, which will predict the Northern Lights.
The sky was almost clear, the stars were visible.
The predictions show that during the night (3-5am) there will be some Auroras (Northern Lights)
- Already 1am there sould be something.
- This means we have to be up all night!
- At the same time the clock is ticking, because the clouds are rolling in during the night.
We'll see do we see the Northern Lights before it gets cloudy or not.
- Looh, there are the Northern Lights!
Helari just talked about it, that it is all overhead.
The faint light is visible right now.
Hey guys, it seems that Auroras are dancing!
Alert! Everyone get dressed now, the Northern Lights are in the sky!
The camera already captured the lights.
All the Northern Lights' fanatic are outside and ready to go.
These first night's Northern Lights got us all excited.
- A moose! - A really big one.
- Where exactly? - Look there, exactly besides the hay ball.
- Ooh we runned off-road.
We saw a moose besides the road and slipped off the road a little.
We saw a moose right now!
Now I will put my camera on the slider capture the timelapse.
This electronic slider is a very good one because it allows me to get more movement in the picture.
So when the Aurora Borealis is dancing in the background then the foreground is moving too.
This is already an optical phenomenon.
- Wow, quickly-quickly.
It is getting stronger and stronger.
- Oh it is really beautiful already.
It is getting visibly brighter outside.
The Northern Lights are getting more brighter and brighter.
- I can't wait to already see the outcome!
The moral of the story is that you have to come outside to see the Aurora Borealis,
because my fancy Northern Lights app is showing that the possibility is only 12% and all the indices are really low.
And voilà the Northen Lights are in the sky!
Right now there is a little pause, but in 45 minutes there will be a new wave coming.
But when the cloud comes before, then we will go home.
- It is cold and we have to keep warm.
New magnetic storm is approaching and maybe the Northern Lights' situation is getting better.
The last five brave ones are still here. This is exactly the same gang who is together in one car. They put together the car full of crazy ones!
Look at this! Look what's going on here.
- The wind is picking up and it is even colder, but also the Northern Lights are back.
- So-so epic and cool. Timelapses are coming from this moment. We will get some epic footage from here.
We can see it so good with our own eyes.
First night in Norway offered us a great show, but clouds disturbed to enjoy the Aurora Borealis to the fullest.
That's why I was wishing for better Northern Lights.
This is a good comparison.
This is Kristo's place and it is really clean and tidy.
And when you look at my bed... Actually it is not messy, here are just a lot of things.
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