Captain Rune's Southward Cruise

Well, blogger now let's me put multiple photos in a single blog again, so here goes a pictorial account of a short cruise Sture and I did with Sture's brother-in-law, "Captain" Lars Rune.
Here's a picture of the marina when we left the mooring.
Here is an interesting house built right next to the narrow passage.

Here is a beacon to guide boat traffic.

Obviously, a major watering hole.

A picturesque seaside settlement.

One has to say that this house is built pretty close to the sea.

Captain Lars is laying a stern eye on all of the crew making sure that they do not step out of line. Actually at this point, I think he and I were discussing the differences between how Sweden and America treated witches in the 17 century. Apparently, it was pretty much the same. Dunk the accused witch into a pond. If she doesn't drown, in all likelihood she is a witch, so burn her at the stake.

The black bit of the rock is where Sture and other brave souls in his family dive into the sea. At this time of year, the water temperature was 14-15C. That is far too cold for me to even contemplate going in. Sture had a swim off the boat later on though.

Sture and his family go out to these islands for daytime picnics and swimming during their summer holiday, provided the wind conditions do not make it too uncomfortable.

Here is a granite rock formation with a pinkish cast. I found out later that this is not all the angle of the sun. Sometimes, the granite has some pinkish quartz in it as well.

Here is a whole line of expensive real estate. The front row are boat houses for the summer houses above which run at about four to five hundred Australian dollars apiece.

Another scenic seaside village view.

I think this is a boathouse. In any case, I love these people who are living on the edge. That is the sea, not an estuary or stream in the foreground.

We've put more out to sea now, but there are still interesting things to see.
We're on the way back in from the outer bay. I'm currently using this photo as my Windows background.

We meet a big sailing yacht motoring through the narrow passage before it gets out to sea.

The name of Lars' pride and joy. Lars bought this 40 foot motor yacht when it was dry docked and needed a lot of work. After buying the yacht Lars invested more money, not to mention significant time and skill to making it a beautiful yacht on the harbor. He occasionally takes two or three day cruises amongst the islands, but I expect that it could do much more than that. Anyway, thank you Lars for a wonderful short trip amongst these islands.

Sture and Lars are tidying up things before going ashore. I didn't know exactly what to do, so I just took a few pictures.
Captain and crew are headed back to surface transport after a great little cruise.