The High Coast is a stretch of Sweden’s Baltic coast. There are steep slopes and stark flat granite coastlines created by glacial activity 20,000 years ago. At that time the ice over this part of the world was almost two miles thick. All the weight pushed the ground down about half a mile. When the ice age finished and the ice melted about 10,000 years ago, the land rose about a third of a mile relative to the sea. It is still rising at an alarming quarter inch a year. In 1,500 years you will be able to walk from the Hoga Kusten to Finland on a land bridge over the Baltic Sea without wetting your feet. This amazing topographically and biologically active region of the world was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Oh - and if we thought it didn’t get dark in Stockholm, we were even further north here. Jo noted that the poor birds are up chirping twenty four hours a day.
And it is stunningly beautiful.
The first morning after a very relaxed breakfast on the sunny deck we walked around the small bay on which the village of Bonhamn is built and went up the rocky hill to explore the coast on the other side. But not before stopping on the spit of rock sticking out at the far end of the bay where the kids found pools of freshwater and algae and tadpoles. For reasons that would take too long to explain, this spot became their go-to spot for everyday entertainment and play thereafter and was named Polliwog Ranch. Their activity of moving tadpoles from one pool to another became a social experiment and was named PRP, for Polliwog Relocation Project.
The first morning after a very relaxed breakfast on the sunny deck we walked around the small bay on which the village of Bonhamn is built and went up the rocky hill to explore the coast on the other side. But not before stopping on the spit of rock sticking out at the far end of the bay where the kids found pools of freshwater and algae and tadpoles. For reasons that would take too long to explain, this spot became their go-to spot for everyday entertainment and play thereafter and was named Polliwog Ranch. Their activity of moving tadpoles from one pool to another became a social experiment and was named PRP, for Polliwog Relocation Project.
After hiking for about a mile during which the kids probably ran six miles back and forth and up and down and across granite rocks the size of houses we stopped for a quick snack of reindeer sausage,
knäckebröd, cheese, and elderberry flower juice on a nice warm mossy rock. Then we walked down to the water and the kids first and then the grown-ups got naked and jumped in the freezing Baltic Sea. We spent all day hiking and never saw another soul. Fun times in Sweden.
knäckebröd, cheese, and elderberry flower juice on a nice warm mossy rock. Then we walked down to the water and the kids first and then the grown-ups got naked and jumped in the freezing Baltic Sea. We spent all day hiking and never saw another soul. Fun times in Sweden.
Oh - and if we thought it didn’t get dark in Stockholm, we were even further north here. Jo noted that the poor birds are up chirping twenty four hours a day.
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