Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Rรถrรถ/Sweden - 08/04/2016

We left Denmark-Ulรถn very early that morning, since this beautiful skerry is not very protective because it is rather flat. The wind became stronger that night and Wolfgang felt that we might be too close to the rocks. Therefore we made it to Rรถrรถ, an outer skerry close to Gothenburg.
Rรถrรถ is of absolutely beautiful nature!

Friday, September 30, 2016

Beautiful Nature!

We still need to determine who's eggs these might have been, since no bird was around when we found them...but anyway, it was one of the most amazing findings this summer: A nest made of shattered ouster and other shells and three beautiful eggs with a pattern like it was painted on them with ink and a form so very cleverly designed :-)

Swan

This swan wasn't all to friendly to us when we moored in Evjesundet/Norway this summer. In the end only a handful of water prevented him from further attacking our dinghy...

Goats in the morning....

We wake up early in the morning and the children had to jump out of the boat immediately, since we had visitors for breakfast.....
There are a few dozen goats on Haoya and their milk is processed at the local cheese dairy we visited yesterday.
Although our two guest might have hope for something better, the children sticked to what the very friendly lady at the dairy explained to us....

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Kon-Tiki Museum Oslo/Norway - 07/31/2016

Last winter I read Thor Heyerdahls book about his incredible travel on a self build balsa raft from Peru to the Polynesian islands.
By this amazing journey Heyerdahl and his companions were able to proof, that the ancestors of the people on the island may have come 1500 years ago from the East under the lead of Kon-Tiki, a mystic god and prime father.
The Kon-Tiki museum was enchanting, showing THE Kon-Tiki raft.
As well as the story of this highly unusual journey other expeditions of Heyerdahl were explained.

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Vigelands Park Oslo/Norway - 07/30/2016

In the afternoon we planed to visit the Vigelands Park. But  just when we were about to take the half hour walk there, it started to rain cats and dogs. Therefore we took the tram, which brought us directly to the entrance. It was still raining there, but the park was rather crowded...we soon found out that it was not because of the really interesting, very dynamic sculptures by Gustav Vigeland (1869 -1943) but the park seems to be kind of a hotspot for Pokemon Go......although rain poured down, many, like many people went around mostly in small groups looking on their devices....well our children had some patience to look at the sculptures, but I guess Pokemon Go built a much stronger memory to this place..."Sorry, Gustav!" ;-)

Oslo/Norway - 07/30/2016

Before we reached the capital of Norway, the children wished to go swimming, since it was a rather hot day with about 28°C....We anchored in a bay close to Oslo, rather close to rocks....after a short swimming we felt the anchor might not be fast enough on the rocky ground with swell of the nearby passing speed ferry....anyway we reached Oslo in the afternoon and were guided by the harbor master to a free box at the Aker Brugge Marina. We were just at the center of Oslo and actually we enjoyed it a lot :-)

Bastoy/Norway - 07/30/2016

Well, we did not stay in Lindholmen for the night....Somehow Wolfgang felt to go on....so while we were all falling asleep, he brought us to Bastoy further up the Oslo Fjord. When I wake up the next morning, we were surrounded by a really beautiful bay :-)

Dreams

Seeing the Stars and Strips at the stern of a boat always provokes certain dreams about crossing the Atlantik and travel the States by boat.....sigh