Hello again,
We know that for most Dutch sailors Gulf of Bothnia on the northern part of The Baltic Sea is a bit too far away but if anybody would be interested we invite you to visit our website. There are some pictures at this link:
www.photovoyage.pl/?lang=pl&ac...bid=1&cid=217&page=1 Being on the North we continued writting our photo blogs: Sailing and Nature photography. Most recent posts there are from Gulf of Bothnia so for sailing stories visit this link:
www.photovoyage.pl/index.php?lang=en&act=sailingblog
and for animals and a plant of the North this:
www.photovoyage.pl/index.php?lang=en&act=photoblog
Blogs are written in Polish but there is Google Translator button on the right upper side of the site so you can try to understand some. It is usually better to use English then Dutch, French or any other language because Polish-English translating seems to be better prepared.
You can also follow our route here:
maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF...004c2d043c854ad4eb0a
And here are some more infos about our cruise:
We spent one month sailing along Finnish coast (including Kvarken Archipelago) and visited 29 harbors or/and anchorages (530 miles). We reached Kemi and then Swedish Haparanda and the most Northern harbor of the Baltic Sea – Töre. And High Coast of course. The Swedish part took us 1.5 month. (47 places, 670 miles) The atmosphere on the North is amazing. Wild nature, white nights, friendly and helpful people. We visited so many beautiful islands, both in Finland and in Sweden that it is really hard to say which is the most interesting. For this post we choose 5, but there were dozens of them. Kylmapihlaja in Finland with a nice hotel and restaurant in a lighthouse and hundreds of birds around, Ritgrund – very small and shallow harbor in Kvarken Archipelago, Malören and its 1.5 meters deep lagoon, nice people, old pilot station, tiny chapel and stunning landscape, Mjältön – the highest island in whole Sweden - 236 m over sea level or Kråkskär with a lovely fishing village. There were some nice towns as well. For example Uusikaupunki, Rauma, Luleå…, but we prefer wilder destinations.
If you will have any questions about sailing there or a particular harbor, feel free to send us an e-mail. Address on our web page.
Best regards from Poland, we hope you will enjoy our pictures.
Agnieszka and Wlodek, s/y Safran
