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| The start of our narrowest and trickiest country lane rock route yet. |
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| This is where it got really tricky. The charts admitted to no knowledge of the depth of any of these submerged rocks, so we lifted the keel and went slowly. |
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| Before the demanding passage above we'd enjoyed a very sheltered and peaceful afternoon and night with a few swims in this very shallow and very muddy anchorage. Phun actually went softly aground in about 1.5m without us realising until Pat dropped the anchor relkeasing a lot of smelly gas and having no effect at all on Phuns position or heading. |
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| But we made it safely to Borgholm, the biggest town on Oland. We felt very small beside the big yachts here. |
We've got through the Kalmar venturi against the wind in two days despite a force 5/6 spell just before the bridge and up to Kalmar town. But we managed to sail with less and less sail up right up to the bridge where we motored into both wind and water crawling along at about 2 knots over the ground. We're now sailing sedately to windward (of course) southwards having enjoyed the warmest swim yet at Kalmar(19 degrees the notice said) and a glass of wine with acquaintances from last year's rally and Royal Harwich Y C. We've enjoyed possibly our last secluded anchorage for a while, negotiated the narrowest and trickiest country lane through the rocks yet, enroute to the town of Borgholm which is a spend spend spend, eat eat eat holiday destination on Öland.
