Nytäppet
May 27, 2009
Nyttäppetträffen 090522-24 After a few weeks now crowded in May it was finally time for a few days off - just hang around, talk to people and maybe some canoeing in the middle ..
Arriving at the East Bokö
Leif and I drove up from Malmo on Friday afternoon and arrived at East Bokö only around five something. It was already quite a lot of people in place and more showed up later. Top with the tents and then unwind with some beer and chips before the body cakes for dinner. While Victoria has lived in Bockö with some other fellow was over a turn. Småstänk bit during the evening but most stay.
Unpack the necessities of life ..
Leif, Pia and Charlotte Friday evening
Morning Concert with two swans and Canada geese
On Saturday morning we woke up quite early by a swan that chased around two loud, but unusually monotone trumpeting, Canada geese up and down the bay. No direct risk to oversleep as well ..
Heavy clouds in the sky made it a very slow start with a coffee and snack before the gangs started to disperse around the archipelago. Leif, Jesper, Carin, Charlotte, Dagmar, Erik and I were well as usual among the last who came in the kayaks. A decent westerly wind tore fun waves just below the meter outside Tärnö and gave us some nice surfing on the way around. Lunch on the northeast tip, still with quite a dark sky, but only someone drop off now and then.
Dark clouds outside Tärnö
Snack Tärnö northeast tip
Other full circle Tärnö ..
After dinner, we decided to go out and watch the waves again, so it got to be one lap around the island, before it was time for ice cream at the port on the inside. And after the ice cream was needed, of course, more coffee. Hard life ..
Brewing Parking
Coffee in the sun, just after the break glass ..
Quickly dip ..
On the way home it started to slowly clear up, the sun peeped out more and more, and the wind died down. Back at the tents and I decided Leif us to clean up a little bit before the food so it was a quick dip off the pier. Fresh ..
Dagmar and Leif succumbed then up a real feast of herring, new potatoes and all the accessories down at the water's edge. After dinner we sat still for a long while and talked in the sunset, and only then we moved up the mountain along with the other. Pleasant uppesittarkväll but down in your sleeping bag before midnight ..
.. Massage ..
.. Before dinner ..
.. And then a bit Eftersnack
Saturday night on the mountain, and, a few hours later ..
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Breakfast on the mountain
On Sunday morning, drove Leif and I started again with a new quick swim before breakfast on the mountain. A little cloudy but quite pleasant temperatures, no rain in the air and just light winds. But we knew the break-up atmosphere, and some had already started packing for the trip home.
An Ikea Disposal, lots of dishwasher, one lemon and a bit tetravin so is the weekend saved ..
Theresa & Jesper and ..
We got down the tents in the kayaks and just before eleven stack Dagmar, Janina, Theresa, Jesper, Leif and I'm off for another turn around Tärnö. Very small lake, this time, but fun nonetheless, that winds around among the stones on the outside. In order to renew us something so we continued north and then took lunch in the bay on the eastern side Bockös. Even now there came a few splashes before the sun came back again.
.. Dagmar & Janina outside Tärnö - the third lap
Last fikan Bockö and on ..
.. Last bath in Nytäppet before the car trip back to Malmoe
Back in Nytäppet was just to unpack the kayaks and into the car again, after the obligatory bath of course ..
Great to get out again - to be free, meet old friends and get to paddle around in a little island with new kayak. It still leaks a few drops of mocking the rear bulkhead but otherwise I am really pleased - it sits well and is a dream to pack through the generous gaps ..
It felt like there were slightly fewer participants than last year and maybe it was because of some poor weather forecasts, though as usual we had the most sun and the top was nice as always! Many thanks to Göran that pulls in the whole bunch!
Now where it might not so much but paddled a +18 +13 km we got enough together. The right pace ..
Erik, Bjorn and Magnus have already written about the hit on their pages and it will surely more ..
/ Ulf
May 27, 2009 18:09
Great pictures as usual! Your quick dip in Bokö inspired me to swim even faster come home at the pier. 11 degrees in the water. 10 degrees on Sunday.
May 28, 2009 10:56
Well they mentioned something about 11 ° when we jumped in and I had afterwards no reason to doubt it .. But yesterday when I swam (with kayak ..) at the bar officially here outside Malmo, it was evident enough in the 14-15 something - clearly more comfortable!
/ Ulf
May 28, 2009 12:32
I felt as 14.5 °. Now it barely cools further
May 28, 2009 17:24
It was me who commented that it was 11grader when you jumped in your bath, but inspired to do the same.
May 28, 2009 18:32
Do you share a tent with the new curvy? Is it better than the past?
May 29 2009 9:14
Maybe not all the way into the tent, but the way of past experience , I would have liked to kayak within reasonably easy reach ..
Has really hard to notice much difference against Corsan, except in addition to the cockpit doors and then, so no direct teething problems, but only to launch and paddle forward as usual. Sounds a bit boring perhaps but that's also how I wanted it ..
Must see if I can get a more detailed evaluation and more close-up sometime in the future ..
/ Ulf
June 13, 2009 21:04
You can build one to simply! With much difference. So you at least notice the difference a couple of rounds! YOU must surely have something to do in the fall
June 15, 2009 12:28
Feels like it is not true 100-position to start thinking about next kayak building yet, at least until Carin +24- days to appear ..
/ Ulf
June 15, 2009 20:27
you probably can not keep you from the spray anyway