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| You can just see PHUN between the two trees on the right and groups of diners enjoyiong the evening sun at the picnic/barbeque tables. |
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| A small river comes into the fjord beside the harbour. |
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| The yacht club harbour at Figeholm seen from the opposite bank |
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| The narrow pinch point |
The haste isn't happening. We arrived here yesterday to do the washing and stock the larder and because we really liked it last year. We are still here as the forecast gusty showery weather has arrived with its prolonged strong gusts as is usual round here. I think the weather forecasts should cite the gust strength instead of the average of almost zero and the gusty periods. But with free washing machines and electricity, best (indeed the only) showers for a long time and a handy village COOP we are quite happy to be here. We had our first run for three weeks before breakfast along one of the many woodland trails all way marked with sticks. There are thousands of sticks marking both sea and land trails in Sweden! We have picked cherries here!
We had spent a happy week at anchor, swimming three or four times a day, picking bilberries ashore and generally making slow progress into the persistent S wind. But we are now nearly at the end of the archipelago, and we have realised why we found it all so stressful last year. The rock routes here are very narrow (one pair of sticks were closer than Phun's length, see above) and no longer lit by many leading lights...... far too twisty. We could tack down most of the routes until yesterday afternoon when we had to motor.
We had spent a happy week at anchor, swimming three or four times a day, picking bilberries ashore and generally making slow progress into the persistent S wind. But we are now nearly at the end of the archipelago, and we have realised why we found it all so stressful last year. The rock routes here are very narrow (one pair of sticks were closer than Phun's length, see above) and no longer lit by many leading lights...... far too twisty. We could tack down most of the routes until yesterday afternoon when we had to motor.
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| A big blackbird at the cherries. |
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| The path was not as good as this everywhere. That's our excuse for a very slow 8.5km. |
