Thursday, 30. July 2009 : From Santio to Lovisa
The small island of Santio, the border control station, was a good place to rest after the choppy trip from Viborg. We stayed there overnight alongside the stable concrete jetty and enjoyed the marvellous flat rocks on the island?s southern beach. Weather is still hot, I will not say too hot as this might upset the weather gods, and Smilla is fully occupied with letting us know that it is time for a swim again.
We have to be very happy with the weather so far. After some really wet days right in the beginning, we had mostly sunshine and temperatures far above 20, sometimes above 30C. The bad thing is there was little wind in general, and when there was some, it was against us, so we had to choose criss-crossing against the wind with 2 knots or starting the engine. I must confess, Mr Penta had to work quite a lit this summer.
From Santio, we continued to Hamina, a small town with a large harbour in the south-eastern corner of Finnland. The harbour was quite nice (guest harbour of the year 2008) and the reasonable harbour-fee of 18? included both electricity and one hour private beach ?sauna. The town is interesting with its old wooden houses, but I missed the charm of a naturally grown society ? streets were symmetrically arranged in a hexagon-shaped manner with the town-hall in its centre.
Next trip was about 30 miles southwast towards Lovisa (wind from southwest, of course), where we stayed overnight in a small boat harbour at the old fortress of Svartholmen. Had to rig the sunshade to get some shadow, and some swims to cool off a little bit (a large Gin and Tonic helped, too).
Now, we are tied up as the only boat on a jetty in Bockhamn on Byön, a nature-harbour-like pool, completely protected and with the cockpit towards west, prepared for another sundown from a blue sky. Life could hardly be better!
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