New Love

Passalacqua Cremador espresso – check the yellow package at the right hand side of the photograph... 70% Arabica with 30% Robusta coffee beans. Good stuff with a strong character. Goes well with my handpresso domepod (not in the image). I got one when I turned into 50 in March and I will not leave the shoreline for camping without it.

The great expedition of this year (cell phone images)

Two weeks at sea, 352 kilometres and terrible heat wave.

Chilly Spring at Sea

Oh boy, was it good to be camping and paddling, even if my drysuit shoes were frozen on last Saturday morning! Six days at sea, with few good books and good camping gear... lots of migrating birds (falcons, ducks, grey herons) and three eagles! I did test my drysuit, just to be sure about it after several years hard use. I did find one minor scratch. Ahh... the shades? I get terrible migraines from the spring sun. All photographs in co-operation with Alli 'Auntie' Lind.

At the Baltic Sea...

Finally, my first r e a l holidays after one and half years of taking care of our little family with Riitta!

I felt stiff, sometimes a bit unsecure at the open waters -and I have to admit that I spent few first days sleeping my tiredness off... no early wake-ups and long days. So did 'Auntie' Alli, my long-time paddling buddy. For me, whose longest expedition was 700 kilometres before Lumi was born, 350 kilometres and two weeks was extraordinarily lazy time. Vilma 'the Body', my other good friend paddled half of the trip with us. Her nickname comes from her obscure habit of participating body-pump excercise at local gyms...

We arrived Kaunissaari harbour accidentally at the very same day, when they had a local celebration, and turned back to west. Fortunately, weather was fine so we had lots of opportunities to admire the huge Suursaari at the horizon. Unfortunately it has been part of Russia since 1945.

More shots from the sea