Kristianopel

Kristianopel is a small town at the Southern end of the Kalmar Sund. It has an interesting history as it was built as a Danish defence against the Swedes in the time that the province of Blekinge was still Danish. As such it had extensive defensive walls, of which considerable bits are still in existence.
These days it has a camping and a very nice small guest harbour which is a popular stop on the way to and from Kalmar. Add to that that it is midsummer weekend and you will understand that we had some doubts if we would find a place here. We arrived a bit after 1pm (in a major rain squall) and fortunately there were still a few places available. You tie up with the bow to the quay and a line hooked to a 'heck buoy' quite a few of which are provided some 15 metres from the shore. Its a system that is used extensively in Sweden and makes it possible to get a lot of boats into a small space. More than one can share a heck buoy and you lie against each other (with fenders in between of course).
Here are a few pictures, the first was taken by people on a Dutch yacht who were our neighbours in Karlskrona and also ended up here. The others show the harbour entrance as seen from the back of Onbekommerd (including the heck buoy) and the harbour square as seen from our from deck.

We are not entirely sure yer what we'll do tomorrow. The most likely is to go a short hop to Ekenäs, a small and somewhat remote harbour between here and Kalmar.