Etikett: gotland
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Det finns annat intressant att se på Gotland än blommorna och här på Fårö hade jag valt några ställen att bekanta mig med och mitt första mål var Digerhuvudets raukområde. Digerhuvudet Det är kul att gå på dessa klippor och jag var tacksam att inte regnat sedan morgonen. Kan tänka mig att kalkklipporna är såphala…
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Sista chansen att åka till Gotland medans jag är kvar i södra Sverige! Jag tog kvällsfärjan från Oskarshamn, det innebar att jag var framme i Visby efter midnatt. Jag hade en dryg 4 mil till Gotlands till mitt nattställe vid den högsta punkten tillika mitt första orkidéställe och det blev en fantastisk åktur dit, jag…
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What a wonderful week it has been! Who would have thought that I would enjoy Gotska Sandön more than Greenland? Because truthfully, that’s what I feel. Greenland was … icebergs and tundra and chained dogs. Gotska Sandön is beaches, dunes, forests, flowers, trees, and a total immersion in the surroundings. Greenland remained distant – I got…
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It was going to be a long walk ahead today, and I wanted to be carrying as little as possible. So I only took one lens per camera (wideangle with Sony and macro with Canon), no tripod and I even left an extra layer of clothes behind me. Which I came to regret quite soon,…
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When you walk in the pine forest, the forest floor is mostly covered in heather which is growing about twice as tall as the heather we have at home. But then in some places there are these bright green spots of moss and cowberries and we heard an explanation to this today. Some years ago,…
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One thing there’s not so much of on Gotska Sandön is water. Yes, it’s an island and it’s surrounded by water, but I mean sweet water – there’s not a puddle of water to be seen, unless it’s man-made. Until today of course, when it started raining. And then pouring. I missed out on noting…
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Even though this is a course, there’s no pressure – the idea is quite simply to walk around the island and discover the plant life and hopefully pick up some pointers to use at home during botanical excursions. I have a tendency to overlook some ”uninteresting” plants but there’s no such thing here! We started by…
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A month ago I was among the icebergs and snow on the largest island in the world, and now I’m on a sunny and sandy beach on the tiny island of Gotska Sandön, some 40 km north from Gotland off the east coast of Sweden. The whole island is a national park, and for a good…
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I’m sitting on the ferry on my way back to the mainland, time to kill. So here are some miscellaneous observations from Gotland. It has been a great trip, and I’m well pleased with myself to have overcome the winds so I don’t have a feeling that I missed a picture because it was blowing…
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My last day on Gotland, time for some sightseeing since my orchid hunt is over. I was actually completely unprepared for sightseeing so I hadn’t done any research on what would be worth seeing – I had expected to spend my entire visit with the orchids. So I just looked at my roadmap which had…