Oh my, The Akka Mountain in The Sarek National Park early in the morning from the ferry
This image is brought with permission of the photographer Patricia Covern, owner of the the guest house http://www.arctic-color.com/ Patricia has specialized in photographing northern light and offer rooms for people interesting in this phantastic phenomenom north of the Polar Circle. The white dots are not dust but stars! If you follow the "Northern Light Webcam" (on http://www.arctic-color.com/), chose language and chose camera, click on the upper image (camera 4), you will end up in http://uk.jokkmokk.jp/detail_nr4.shtml the live camera. Click on "Archives" you will find 6 images per hour from the present day. Chosing another day, go down to the bottom click "Back Number" and chose another day! Voila! If you want to see a video of all the pictures from the selected day, go to the top and chose resolution. If you only want a video of 1 hour duration, click on the hour in the right or left column. Of course you are welcome to chose one of the other shown cameras as well, have fun!!
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Gps-track from Ritsem to Kutjaur
When you click on the individual image, on the rigt side of the screen is a link "more info". The name of the image is also the precise time (GMT) of exposure. All images are geopositioned, check the map in the right lower corner.
The Göta canal
A few words about The Göta canal
Morning coffee
This is Sweden!
Old melting furnace
1/4 of a an old swedish mile equals 10 km, the same as 6 miles
You can camp almost anywhere, but ask if you are on private property, and be considerate!!
Old farm house
Probably old appartments for workers
Typically old type of fence
Mosquitoes!!
the beginning of Sarek NP
Stora Sjöfallets dam
The water inlet for the turbines is easy to locate
The Akka mountain
Ferry boat from Ritsem to Vaisaluokta
Start of the hike uphill
Arrival at Vaisaluokta. 2 km SE to going uphill
Not proud of the focus on a couple of the images! Names will be supplied later by Karin!
At the most swampy places planks were used as path
The best water I have ever tasted, and it's free!
On this spot I lost my camera!! And found it the next day by the help of the track on the GPS!
Maria's place at Kutjaur
At Maria's place at Kutjaur
Karin as the camp host at the Kutjaur camp
It's a violent and beatiful water fall in Sarek NP pretty close to the Kutjaur camp!
Rain in the horizon
Near midnight
En route back to DK
Typical Swedish hospitality for campers
At Inger and Carstens farm near Markaryd
