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...

The lighthouse of Behrensdorf

It is run by the navy was built 1915. The red brick tower is out of funktion since 1996 and only used for the occantional army shooting from Todendorf as a warning signal.
It´s light is carried 40 Meter over the sea:










The sourrounding landcape in mai

Into the rain

Paddling on rainy days can suck your left energy. But quite often the rain will bring very special weather moods with it too, that can be enjoyed als long as you have enough energy left.

Sea kayaker t-shirts

At "spread shirt" I tryed to design some T-shirts for me and my friends:

more about that you can find here: http://178478.spreadshirt.net/-/-/Shop/

230 km on the Pembrokeshire Cost

In may / june 2006 we hiked for 230 km along the breath taking pembrokeshire coast path.

Quite often I wished a sea kayak would have fit into my rucksack. To rent a kayak here is almost impossible unless you are willing to spend a fortune and have a BCU 4 star paper. We have neitehr a fortune nor a " 4 star" paper.
So here are some pictures from the hikers perspective. I start with some arches that we found on our trip.

sea kayak "art"

I tryed to work with some sea kayak pictures. It´s not truely art, but looks somehow nice. I think :-)

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