{"id":13095,"date":"2020-07-14T20:33:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13095"},"modified":"2020-07-16T21:25:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T20:25:34","slug":"daily_2008_-_geocaching_near_erstavik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/07\/14\/daily_2008_-_geocaching_near_erstavik\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2008 – geocaching near Erstavik"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe went out geocaching\/walking\/picnicking. I tried to think of someplace new, and came up with Erstavik. I passed through there on my bike<\/a> some years ago and walked there<\/a> once on my own and really liked what I saw.
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\nWe started off with a geocache just a few hundred metres from the parking lot, and then headed towards the next nearest one, which sounded intriguing. (Floating islands<\/a>!) Adrian took care of most of the navigation, with some expert help from Ingrid.<\/p>\n

The cache description said lake Dammsj\u00f6n has three floating islands. We only spotted one, and another clump of earth that could maybe have been one. It looked like a perfectly ordinary small island, with some shrubs and a few pines, and didn’t seem to be floating anywhere.
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\nAfter getting the second cache, we had our picnic on a small rocky peninsula extending into the lake. (Cold falafel in flatbread, with a chutney and sour cream sauce.) It was a lovely spot and I’m glad nobody else had gotten there before us! There’s something about being surrounded by water that makes it feel like you’re really on your own.<\/p>\n

There were flat shelves of rock leading from the peninsula into the water that really invited to bathing. The lake water felt quite warm, so we took a quick dip.<\/p>\n

I decided to swim to that island to see whether it really floated. It did indeed! The edge of it had no support, just water below it, and it wobbled up and down when I pushed it. I didn’t try to get onto the island – it seemed like it would be tricky – but I’m curious what it would feel like to walk on it.<\/p>\n

Afterwards I read that the islands float around so much that they sometimes reattach themselves to the shore<\/a> and then depending on the weather maybe float free again. So perhaps that’s what the other islands have done this year as well. Or maybe they just floated into some corner of the lake where we couldn’t see them.
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\nThere were masses and masses of blueberries everywhere. The first ones we looked at weren’t quite ripe yet, but when we got to sunnier spots, it turned out that most of them were just ripe enough. They’ll probably be sweeter in a week or so, but we’re here now.
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\nAs we were heading back towards the car, we saw signs next to the path about a caf\u00e9 at the beach of Erstavik. Ice cream sounded good, so we turned that way instead. After much walking, we found the caf\u00e9 to be closed. But the beach wasn’t, so Ingrid and Adrian had another swim. Especially Adrian didn’t like the lake – it had steep, rocky sides, and he prefers smooth beaches where he can reach the bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went out geocaching\/walking\/picnicking. I tried to think of someplace new, and came up with Erstavik. I passed through there on my bike some years ago and walked there once on my own and really liked what I saw. We started off with a geocache just a few hundred metres from the parking lot, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,775,15,773,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-eric","category-ingrid_johanna","category-outdoors","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13095"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13102,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095\/revisions\/13102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}