Although the icy, long winter in which we could reach by car to the southern archipelago , only exist in the memories of older Gothenburg, one can also see today a unique winter landscape, when one breaks up with the ferries to the archipelago. Ice and snow turn all the banks in a world of ice sculptures and a wonderful winter landscape.
If the winter, as this year, very early feeding in Gothenburg, so begins the winter trip in December in Saltholmen where ice is tightly packed and the harbor for recreational boats Freizeitseemänner the boat is out of reach. If one while leaving the harbor in the open is so you can hear hundreds of ice on the hull crack and frightened birds from their short sleep startle.
The already karst islands of the southern archipelago, are passed with the boats come work out with ice and snow and even less covered than they actually are. Almost no one now wants to live in the summer houses, even if you have to evacuate hundreds of feet of snow, the moisture leaves glassy-way and you do not really know what might dock on the evening closed to boat traffic.
at the small boat docks, the rocks that rise from the sea, and on the edge of each island you can clearly see the movement of water and the tides recognize that to about one meter wide variety create ice formations and make each creation of a boat impossible. Most of the structures you may only see from the water.
on the multitude of ice floes and the frozen bays you can in the winter discover a variety of water birds, who know that they are safely on the near-white surface, but which, on the other side , had to leave the water holes in the rear, because they see the zugefroreren Seen any more food there and they even lack the essential water.
Copyright text and photos: Herbert Karlin
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