SE: Hälsön – Klädesholmen, storm day in Klädesholmen

Sunday, August 26: One shower in the night, otherwise quite cold; a couple of clouds remaining in the morning, clearing in the course of the afternoon; fresh sea breeze

Sea Kayaking: 24.4 km

Holiday home for six at Klädesholmen harbor

The cheese had lasted well (the same cannot be said of the crispbread which was rapidly becoming soft) and was now finished. Still a lot of coffee & sugar to go and the milk may well last the length of the trip. Anyway, breakfast was dealt with, the tent packed up and we set out on our hardest day, which was planned to be a lot of paddling into head winds or along the coast with side winds and parallel waves. Read more…

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…


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