After waiting six hours for the wind and waves to decrease with no positive result I decided to spend the night at my emergency harbour. But no place for my tent! Instead I choose to use an abandoned fisherman's hut as my palace for the night.
The name of the place is Dragsholmen and today's paddle total came to 12 km.
This morning started nicely. After one hour I passed Smogen on my right side and Kungshamn on my left side. Suddenly the wind increased dramatically, with wind gusts of 13 ms and meter high waves. To keep my balance was like dancing Zumba with Red Nose. At the time of reporting this I am waiting for better weather at a small emergency harbour at the southern tip of Malmon.
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Last night at Porsholmen a herd of sheeps came to visit me at tent bed time.
I tried to count them and when I reached 24 I fell a sleep.
I woke up to beautiful morning as you can see from my tent porch. After 8 hours of paddling and meditating today I reached a barren rock at Tryggoe for my tent. Today's total: 35 km
At Hamburgsund I passed a ship that did not make it all the way to Haparanda.
Sotekanalen was long and boring. A very strong head wind did not cheer me up. Next time I will take the open sea option.
