I valued my creature comforts too much to go to the photo meetup yesterday, but I made up for it today. One of the most valuable parts of a meetup is that someone has scouted out a great location – and I don’t need to be there on the day in order to use that! So I just drove to the same place today on my own.

Stendörren turned out to be a popular and much-photographed nature reserve right on the sea coast. A very civilized kind of nature reserve, with amenities everywhere – from bridges and walkways to loos and benches and picnic tables. The bridges and walkways are one of the main draws of this place: they take you to small islets just off the mainland, so you can get that archipelago experience without a boat.

Adrian would have liked this place, I think. It’s the kind of place where walking feels more like exploring. Any time you turn a corner, there’s something new. Even the largest islets are so small you can circle them in half an hour.

Off the rocky coast in one spot I found a whole bunch of jellyfish of all sizes. The smallest would have fit in the palm of my hand; the largest ones were like dinner plates.

They were hard to photograph – the water was anything but clear, and a wobbly, semi-transparent jellyfish is hard to focus on.


The forest was full of large mushrooms, especially some kind of boletus-like ones. The largest ones were often lying in pieces – I guess their size and shape invites kicks. But I also found this lovely family of fly amanitas. With actual flies on them (in the last photo)!