Karlskrona

As promised, first here are a few pictures we took at Tärnö yesterday:

A few locals have boats on a mooring 

 The 'harbour' is called Laxboden, this is the 'kiosk' where you also pay the harbour fees (not a cheap harbour, actually). There also is what looks like a restaurant, but that was closed. In the evening a lot of boats from the smaller islands around arrived and they all barbecued (like good Swedes do in summer) and stayed for the night. So the harbour was full of 'locals' plus two Dutch boats!

Postboxes for the holiday homes on the island 

From the highest point of the island there is a nice view over the 'skärgård'. 

 The lighthouse is supposedly the oldest still working wooden lighthouse in Sweden. Of course if you put sufficient requirements in place, one always has a 'unique' occurrence. The Swedes are pretty good at that, they are proud of there heritage.

 The only two 'guests' in the harbour. Both Dutch. We have seen quite a lot of Dutch boats the last week or so. Most of them are kept in Germany or Southern Denmark, just 4 to 6 hours drive from where the people live. If you sail for longer periods at a time, thats quite a good idea as you don't have to go the whole way through the German Bight which can be a (weather) problem. For us it's easier as we take the 'inland route'.

 This is Tärnö's ferry jetty. There is a ferry a few times a day.

We looked at the weather forecast this morning and noticed that from this afternoon there will be quite a bit of wind for a few days. Plus it is going to rain quite a bit. So we decided to skip Ronneby and go straight to Karlskrona. We have been here before and although the town is not particularly attractive it is steeped in Naval history and it has all you need in the way of provisioning for a few days, which Ronneby does not have. And it has a large, sheltered marina. 

So we had a pleasant three and a half hour trip, first over the open sea and then through the islands to Karlskrona. On arrival,we found that the marina facilities have been modernised so that's good!

This is the "Godnatt", the citadel in the approach to Karlskrona.