Tag: Bråtö

SE: Bråtö – Hälsön

Saturday, August 25: Partially cloudy for most of the day, but the clouds were moving quite quickly

Sea Kayaking: 14.3 km

Hälsön wilderness camping

It rained a couple of times during the night, mostly heavily but briefly. Breakfast this morning was the usual fare and during the course of discussion about today’s destination we decided on two half-days with two different ways of filling the non-kayaking half: Today we would enter the fiord between Orust and Tjörn, Stigfjorden, and find an island to camp on and spend the afternoon exploring; and on another day we would go to a village for a walk around. Read more…

SE: Ellös – Bråtö

Friday, August 24: Still a bit of rain in the morning, clearing rather quickly, one or two showers along the way, sea breeze

Sea Kayaking: 17.2 km

Bråtö wilderness camping

We were up before the others as usual but not so early and had our breakfast in the well-hung mess. Not much of the clothes had become dry and the tent was still very wet despite the increasing wind. The quarry next to the campground was operating from fairly early on, including a couple of detonations with acoustic warnings that sounded like car alarms.

Everyone else was up as soon as the rain was over and a lot of stuff was hung over fence posts in an attempt to dry. The boats were also fairly full of water so my bailing device came into good use. Eventually the mess room was cleared out and the boats were ready to go. As the ramp was too slippery to attempt an entry into the water, I had fixated the pontoon so that the boats could be let down the slip and forwarded to the pontoon where they were entered. Read more…

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