måndag 9 augusti 2010

Gotland 2010 - day 4

After a stormy and rainy night, with thunder and lightning playing loudly all night, we tried to get up early but it wasn't too easy. Neither of us had slept that well, in light of the storm. But we did get underway and wheels up at around 10, after a quick breakfast.

Due to the heavy rainfall we were slightly worried about the "Great Barrier Reef" that we had passed on the way to our nightspot. But we needn't worry - the Reef hadn't grow or deepened much.

We drove from the night spot towards the ferry and took the ferry down to Gotland and onwards to Fardume and Fardume castle to pick of a cache, Fardume Castle.

Then onwards towards the rauk area Husken, where neither of us have been before. We had a quick lunch and then walked into the nature preserve. It's not as magnificent as many of the other rauk areas but it's beautiful in it's own way. The rauks are located up on a cliff and therefore the view it lovely. Here we picked off 2 caches, Yvar Husken and Husken.

Then we drove over to Furillen. A small man (army) made penninsula, previously an island, that is literally empty of people. It's a real Gotlandish jem with beautiful stone and sleet beaches, rauks, beautiful nature. It's quiet and peaceful. And since the whole pennisula is pretty much an old army station, there are lots of old barracks and other military installations that are kind of fun to see.

We drove around Furillen and checked on night spots and found a few that we marked. And had some coffee in the sun. But then we went back to Gotland and to the city of Slite.

Slite is an mining city and it has pretty much all the neccessities one might need. Banks, several grocery stores, Systembolaget (a liquer store), shoe stores, coffee shops and so on. We stoped of and did some grocery shopping and filled up on water in the harbour as well as taking a couple of caches amoung others Bussows Backe.

On the way back out to Furillen we stopped of att Ganns ödekyrka, an old medival church ruin. It's quite a specially feeling in these old church ruins.

We spent quite some time here - lots of things to see and Andy did some climbing into an insanly tight stairwell into the church tower. And yes, we did take the cache.

Back on Furillen, we choose the night spot with the most grand view - and it was really magnificent! We were standing on the edge of a cliff (a dropp of about 20 meter) and had a beautiful view of a small bay and the open ocean - towards Finland.

A nice little note written on the beach - Congratulations Ingela & Stefan.

View from the edge of the cliff.

Harmy in the beautiful evening sunligt.

Dinner was a great sandwich that we made with stuff that we had in the fridge and in the pantry. Really amazing sandwiches on bauguette bread somewhat like a Swedish Smörgåstårta or Sandwich cake. A sandwich cake is usually made in layers of toast bread and mixes made with all kinds of yummy things. Usually the mixes are made with prawns or lever paté, ham, créme fraiche and so on.

In ours we had a thick slice of bauguette bread, roasted slightly in a dry pan. We spread some lemon mayo on the breads and lay sallad leaves on top. Then we decorated with cheese and ham rolls, hard boiled egg, Skagenmix, cucumber, tomatoes, black olives, prawns and lime. I think that was about. It was really yummy!

Evening comes fast in the RV, we played some cards and had some coffee and watched a movie before it was time to enjoy the sunset and sleep.

Cache count: 5 / 442 total.

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