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Boat check in sunset

August 2nd, 2009 at 5:06 pm » Comments (4)

Our last evening at our summer paradise island Fårö, we went with the farmer to the rauk area to finally get to see a sunset without clouds, the first one this month! As it was on the way, we also did check in on the farmers boat.

There are many very charming old fishing cottages both [...]

The flying sand threatened to take over the island

July 28th, 2009 at 2:41 pm » Comments (3)

Ullahau is a big horse shoe shaped parable sand dune in the north east of Fårö island (Sweden) with flying sand that was created in the first half of the 18th century. In the beginning of 1900 it threatened to cover the whole island with sand.
Today Ullahau is a nature reserve area (since 1966) of [...]

Old Fishing Boat Coat

July 26th, 2009 at 12:35 pm » Comments (7)

This is the farmers old fishing boat, which he has put tar on. He didn’t put it in the Sea (Baltic) until we had been here for quite a while - unusually late - because it’s no use before the fishes get fat enough.
He use to have his boat down at the fishing cottage down [...]