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Monday, July 6, 2015

Valdemarsvik

As promised, here are a few pictures of our latest island experience.


 Here you can see our stern anchor lines quite nicely.

 Of course the COBB came in handy!

 Our friends on 'Claudia' left a day before us, on their way South already.

 A very typical Swedish summer scene: a family on a rock..

 Exploring the island on foot...

And by dinghy.


We left yesterday morning after coffee, with the plan to find another 'island spot'.  Then we looked at the weather forecast (prompted by the VHF forecast) and noticed that it would be rainy this morning. Now rain is not a problem in itself, but pulling up anchors and finding marks in narrow channels in the rain (especially the green marks can be hard to find, I'll take a picture and post it) is not exactly fun, so we decided to go straight to Valdemarsvik, which is about 10 nmiles up a 'fjord', a 'Viken'. We got there just before 4pm, still in lovely summer weather.
During the night the rain started and we are happy with our decision! It however seems that the Swedish summer is taking a bit of a break: rain today, wind tomorrow and generally unstable for the rest of the week. Well, we are comfortable here and we can't change the weather anyway, so we'll see what happens. There are a few nice places a bit further North that we would like to visit before starting to go  back South in about two weeks.

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