Thursday, June 17, 2010

Getting to Tornio and warming up



It's Thrusday 17th June and we are sitting on a beautiful island called Vähä-Huituri. We started our journey today around 11 am from another island, called Pikisaari in Tornio. The Röyttä harbour had become private so we had to change the starting point to further up the Tornio river. And since Pikisaari was such a nice place to sleep, it became it. Special thanks to Ulrika who agreed to be our personal driver! Hope to see you when we paddle by Esse!


Here's Eeva and Oskar ready to roll in Pikisaari:


The day was fine, mostly sunshine, some clouds and southwest wind. At 4.40 pm and after 21 kilometers and about 4 hours paddling we saw a nice beach and decided to take a short break. That break became a camp site after we saw how nice it was there:



And after awhile we noticed that we're not exactly where we had thought to be. We had very good intentions to paddle along the coast, but found ourselves from a bit further out to the sea. Not so well worked with the compass and all, but we guess we were a bit high from the sea breeze. So far this has probably been the best miss ever.

An overall feeling of the day is that all went well with the paddling and it was great to finally get out here and to the sea!. The boats worked well and so did the paddlers even though we experienced some very chaotic waves at one point. The only problems we discovered were that Oskar found out that his feet are too big to the Nordkapp, and that Eeva's sprayskirt is designed for a lot bigger people. Nothing to worry about though, we'll figure out these size-problems.

Today's question: What is missing from the first picture?

You can place your answers into the comment box.

We are wishing everyone good night!

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