A few weeks ago we drove along the Voxnan river north from Rullbo. I thought the place had fabulous potential and planned to get back in the autumn with all the colours. And that’s what I did today. Only problem was that the light was awful – that disgusting thin veil of clouds across the sky so it’s not really overcast but it’s not sunny either. There were a few moments of good light and I was able to use them, but then the bad light returned and made me walk away from so many wonderful opportunities that I’m nowhere near done with the place.
I also visited two new places today. The first one was a result of some detective work and I’m well pleased with myself. You see, I’ve heard that there are some waterfalls in the Björnån river downstream from the bridge over E45. The problem is that there isn’t any road that follows the river and it’s impossible to follow the river on foot. But thanks to the wonderful new satellite pictures on hitta.se, I was able to see a couple of places which were white and that can only mean one thing – falling water. Out of those two spots I found, I chose to visit the easy one today and reaching it was easy indeed, just over 400 metres from the road and you can hear it when you park the car so I didn’t even need my GPS to get there. I was happy to find out that it was indeed a real waterfall, the light on the other hand was impossible so I’m only showing the picture to given an idea of the place. If you’re going there, just a word of warning – if it’s sunny, then the falls will be backlit at noon. But who wants to shoot at noon anyway? Except me, because it was noon when I got there…
The other new place I visited was a lucky coincidence. At one point, the Ormsjövägen road (the one that follows the Voxnan river) goes through an area which is dotted with big rocks and small tarns and bogs. Just the kind of landscape I like, so I parked the car and was going to follow the road on foot to cover that interesting stretch. What I hadn’t counted on was a small brook that runs through the area and in the end, I forgot all about the tarns and bogs because the brook had me totally spellbound! It’s just like the rapids at Svartån except a bit smaller and more open. It took me almost two hours to cover about 200 metres of it and it wouldn’t have been over even then, either, if it hadn’t been for my very empty stomach. Looking at the map, the brook continues to fall steadily for about a km from the spot where I was until it joins Voxnan. If the rest of the brook is as interesting as the part where I was, then will be a full day job to cover all of it! And trust me, I will be back.
The day definitely turned out to be longer than I had anticipated – which is pretty good, considering how disappointed I was with the light at first!