Paddling Klitmöller Hawai of Denmark, day one

A nice small swell wecomes us on the spot. No real surfer or windsurfer in view. Thats fine we have the spot all to ourselves and the waves are not to big big for us "baltic mini wave riders".

A lighthouse that is vanishing in the sand

On our visit of northern Denmak we came across Rudbjerg Knude. It´s a Lighthouse already abandoned since 40 years. It´s vanishing in the sands of a moving dune.
As we arrived the wind was blowing force 7. Now we can imagine a sand storm in the Saharra desert. Out to be like this mystic danish place:

Paddling under clouds

Some days you dont recognize the clouds when you paddle. Some day you do.
This special day had two totally different views for us. onse side was boring, grey the other direction view was just breathtaking great.



We love our small lake for its moods:

Desktop calender 2009

I tryed to chose some of my sea kayak pictures from the year 2008 for the free desktop calender 2009 that you can download under the following link ( size 1280 x 1024 and 1024 x 760 pix):

http://www.liquidmedicine.de/html_data/funktions_htmls/start.htm

Hope you like it!

This is an overview of the pictures:

Have u seen Santa ?

I did see him on a saturday surfing session.

A november week in the swedish skerries.

The last ten years i have been to to Sweden or Norway at least once a year. But it was already november 2008 and I was pretty late. Thus I took one week holidays, to do a spontaneus trip to the eastern skerries south of stockholm.

I was very keen on testing my new P&H Cetus, that I got recently, on his first "longer" camping trip.


Good decision. The possibility to make fire at thze campside made it feel warmer than some of my summer trips. It´s was a silent solo week with the sound´s of nothern nature: nothern baltic seals popping up behind me and blowing like a whale, long taild dugs flying by to check who is this strange orange thing on the water, a complaining couple of Swans in every bay, wind in the pine crowns and the cracking of fire....




When I refilling my car on a swedish gas staion on the way back I read in a swedish newspaper: "Chaos Strom weekend over Sweden".
Well my week was windy and raniy but I did not feel the weather was especially bad.
I haven´t missed a day paddling, what may show how well you can hide between all those islands.

Great trip: I will be back for each of the next 10 years hopefully

A German fjord and the vikings

Well, you can´t expect towering mountains here at the Schlei fjord like in Norway. But a loveyly sourrounding with sandy beaches, towering beech forests and a cute lighthouse will make for a nice weekend too. The only link to the northern fjords are the people that once lived here: The Vikings with their old city of Haitabu . A rich history of baltic trades and war...