Hullo all beach-lovers!!
Have just returned to home after seven hours on the sweetwater ocean Vänern..abbseluttelly lovely day today, maybe the first real summerday??.....Where my wooden double-ender (sv=snipa) Hedvig af Lamberget has elegantly plowed the waves, propelled by my trusty Albin 02, run on alcohol(E85)...putt,putt....
Today we tried to sail for the first time this "summer", so we took the new spritsail-rig,since the wind was quite strong......However, we let the engine putter along while sailing, thus making it easier, haha.This trick is called to use the" iron genua",
........We also had a "shipdog", a cairnterrier whose name is Cesar.He had his own lightgreen lifevest with a handle on top.....He strutted along(looking ridiculous) after a while like HE was the captain, and not me, so I was contemplating dunking him, but his matte (female owner) didn´t allow it, haha.....
As for the craggy, volcanic beach north of Amopi, its there where I gather my salt on occasion......and now ye all know it....
Anyway, its a rocky shore, a bit forbidding, but Xroni took me there for diving once.He put on wetsuit,leadweights and frogfeet like a true professional, while I just had goggles and pants and flippers.We both went into the sea, but Xroni disappeared soon into the blue depths, while yours truly floated around on mebbe two-three meters level.There is no actual beach, the shore ends and than its DEEP straight away.....The shore-wall is full of holes and Xroni said there were murenas there too....gulp.......After a while I sorta felt kinda lonely and the idea of (hungry) murenas was not too amusing, so I went ashore, dried meself and collected some salt instead.....waiting for Mr Neptun Panaretos to appear.....He had some orange float on a string, so after a while it showed up and Xroni raised from the sea like a ancient god.....with an octopus.
Have you ever seen how they kill and prepare them?? Its a lot of bashing and pummeling and whatnot, quite enough to make one loose the eventual appetite....
If you are keen on saltgathering, go in the spring, ok?? Bring a tea-sieve, that works fine........
Good beachhunting on Karp!!
Mikke
(KfK)