Ferries from Songesand hurtigbåtkai

Both of Songesand's legs take five minutes, though one is twice the distance of the other: Bakken at 1.0 nautical miles, Kalleli at 2.2. Thirteen sailings a week each, from 06:25 to 18:55 on three day patterns.

Covering 2.2 miles in five minutes means the boat is running at speed — this is a fast craft, and on the long straight reaches of Lysefjorden it has room to use it.

Songesand is a small settlement on the northern shore of the fjord, with a road that climbs steeply inland but no coastal route in either direction. Places like this along Lysefjorden were farms rather than villages, each with its own landing, and the boat calls at them in sequence because there has never been any other way to string them together.