Anthony’s Blog

We have this word ”hulluntuuri” in Finnish language. It means, you get unexpectedly lucky. That sums up tonight’s Aurora hunting pretty well. Tonight reminded us once again, that you should take the chance to see the Auroras, even on a cloudy night. The weather forecast looked quite depressing, and I sat outside, looking at an…

The night seemed perfectly clear, and KP levels higher than usual, so we head Aurora hunting with excited smiles on our faces. We caught the first bits of green light at our secret location on our way to our base camp. The sky kept showing our cameras the beautiful green light all night, but we…

We didn’t even reach our magical hilltop location before the sky started to clear up. For some minutes, the sky created a hole, just the right size to see the green bridge going across the sky. It felt so magical – like the nature had known what we’re looking for. The display ended as quickly…

We arrived to our base camp to find the sky just starting to clear revealing such bright stars in a dark  black sky. The northern lights soon began to brighten and so as soon as we were ready we headed up the hill to our viewing location, the whole group had just arrived when the…

The fireside glow through the door of the khota illuminated the landscape, we were drawn inside by instinct, some strong natural force. The group sat around the fire and after a few stories we shared some Lappish shamanism, our future spelled out in the form of the tin and its shadow cast by torch light.…

Happy Valentine’s Day! What could be a better way to spend it, than admiring the beautiful northern nights skies with your loved ones, and gathering around the fire to enjoy some hot chocolate? Disappearance of the moon has revealed all of the stars on the sky – no way you could ever count them! There…