During the course of the voyage you may see the friendly thaw of winter in the south, to stormy winter in the north. From metre high snowdrifts with sprinklings of green grass to roaring waterfalls of meltwater and bird cliffs standing like rocky skyscrapers, full of flying and nesting life.
Spring in Norway is a beautiful adventure, a quiet explosion of life, smells, colours and light.
Each week brings a marked increase in both daylight hours and the greenery of the fjords. Buds appear on bare branches as colour gently returns to the landscape. At the higher latitudes of the Arctic region, winter struggles to maintain its grip. Eventually, it relents, although the snow is still seen well into spring. Hurtigruten ships skirt the Finnmark plateau and
coast, which remains largely ice-free thanks to the warming waters of the Gulf Stream.