Friday, 30 October 2009

Landsort; 29th October 2009

Buoys. Hanging under the eaves of a fishing shed with other bits and pieces...


Driftwood. Found in an old yard...

Peg and Knot. These are used as aids to provide tension whilst net making....


Lifering.


Gable end of an old fishing shed, immaculatly kept and maintained over the years...


Tile roof and Lichens. Clean air perfect on the island for lichens and they abound, these growing on a tiled roof over a fishing shed....


A trip to Landsort, an island in the southern Stockholm Archipelago today with the camera on a birdwatching trip saw me take these images around the main fishing village at Norrhamn. A very old fishing village still operates to a somewhat diminished capacity, wandered about taking shots of whatever caught my eye, though light rather dull today on a typical late autumn day in Sweden. The waters around the island still excellent for deep water Salmon and Seatrout, though the old days of Herring fleets have gone, just a few smaller boats now operate from the harbour on a subsitent scale....
A link here to Blogbirder to view further photos of birds taken on the day;
Also here; a link to the official Landsort website for thos interested;