Smedviken - Loftahammer

After spending a quiet night at anchor in a bay called Smedviken on an island called Vinokälv, we did a 2 hour trip to Loftahammer today. Loftahammer is not all that special, but it has a reasonably big supermarket and after a few days 'off the beaten track', we needed to stock up a bit.

Here are the promised pictures of yesterday and this morning:

 These are the old (big) and new beacons on Sparö, in the approach to Västervik.

 There is a narrow channel right through the island of Sparö. You can easily take another more comfortable route, but we were told that this was quite an experience, so - adventurous as we are these days - we took it and were not disappointed!

Just outside the Sparö channel there were people having lunch 'on the rocks'... 

The two pictures above were taken in Smedviken, whilst at anchor. 

We were not alone there, a total of seven of us in the end. But we were the only ones 'swing anchoring'. The Swedes generally use the system of 'tie the bows to a rock or tree on the shore and put out a stern anchor.

The weather is really nice now, sunny and warm but not too hot. Tomorrow we'll go to a little harbour on an island nearby (together with our Dutch neighbours who have been there before). After that further North, probably another 'anchor bay'. We are never sure if there will be internet connectivity 'in the wild', so far (with a few exceptions) it has generally been good. So if we can, we'll report back, otherwise I am afraid there will be a short gap.