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| Sofia, Eva, Daniel, Jakob, Thanya (from left to right) |
Waking up in Utö a sunny day welcomed us again. Sadly our smallest guest Ella (3 1/2) had fallen ill over night. Eva and Daniel did not get to much sleep therefore, but luckily Jakob had slept with Thanya in her cabin, so the rest of us were well rested.
Expecting that Ella would return to health soon we set out early to return to Kökar, but this time to Karlby harbour in the heart of the island. Since we didn't have much wind and both my new guests and Thanya were interested in experiencing open water without any islands on the horizon, we took the southern route back only having islands north of us and open Baltic Sea south. The reaction to this experience was mixed, Jakob (7) and his mother loved it, Thanya and I imagined weeks of this and only thought - boring!
We passed Källskär and saw the bronze "Hermesstatyn" on the rocks before we started the lovely but challenging passage to Karlby harbour. Going more than once between stones and small islands in a zigzag route following white marks on rocks to get the right bearing was awesome! Absolutely the coolest harbour passage so far and we did it backwards today in the morning light!
Finally in Karlby we got a great spot and because it was so hot almost all of us immediately got into the water cooling off. Some of us, even if the water was at least 20 degrees, needed a long time to dip ;-)!
The harbour looked like a big swimming pool with kids and grown-ups swimming everywhere!
We mounted a sheet to get more shade and the feeling of being in the Åland riviera crossed my mind.
Today is not much different, just a bit better breeze, because we are in a natural harbour called Möholm.
Back to yesterday our guests left us still very excited after having cooked dinner for us all returning to their tent at Sandvik camping.
Sadly they needed to go by the island nurse first to have her check on Ella, who had been vomiting all day. Luckily we got the news later that she didn't have anything serious.
After 2 days of having guests and kids on the boat, Thanya and I enjoyed our togetherness even more. But we are already planning to visit Daniel, Eva, Jakob and Ella back in Switzerland together!
After reading the blog 2 years ago from a young lady sailing counter clockwise through the Baltic Sea with her small boat with friends and family and sometimes just people she met, I had longed for inviting somebody foreign to come along. Now I have done exactly that and we all really enjoyed the experience as well as our company, so cool!
Thanya and I look back on a wonderful day again of sailing for more than 4 hours and motoring the rest between small and bigger islands reading and interpreting the sea chart correctly. She even noticed my mistake before I did: Bridge only 5,3m high and we need 17m to be on the safe side. We turned around and quickly found an alternative way to our harbour. In the end we did 27sm instead of 24. Not so bad!
Now we will prepare dinner and enjoy it in another gorgeous setting, aren't we lucky?
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