The Supercargo's Daily Photo Project
Wide photographs showing landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes etc
Guest photoblogger Annicka Carlund writes:
Det ser mörkt ut över stan (Göteborg). Jag blir nog kvar på Hönö ett tag till. Välkommen hit och besöka min ö någon gång. Tack för mig.
It looks dark over the town (Gothenburg). I think I’ll stay on Hönö a while longer. You’re welcome out here to visit me and my island some day. Thanks and farewell. … Continue readingDark over the town
The ferryboat Silvertärnan on its way to Bränö in the southern archipelago – behind a forest of masts in the marina at Saltholmen … Continue readingSilvertärnan and a forest of masts
The Ensfyr – two tall white pillars that sailors have to line up so they make one (ens) in order to navigate into Arendal harbour at the mouth of Gothenburg’s Göta Älv. Lit by the setting sun. … Continue readingEnsfyr on Fotö
A dark green lichen has colonised the ice-age striations in this outcrop of granite. … Continue readingLichen and striations
Two paths at the Skallgrusbank in Sillviks Nature Reserve – the one through the white chalk soil, the other a dissipating contrail. With a little imagination you might see one as a continuation of the other.
Skallgrusbank means “shell gravel bank”, so it’s not really chalk (which is an unusual rock here abouts). It’s actually the remnants of millions of small shellfish that lived and died here about 10,000 years ago when this was a shallow bay of the sea. The land rose and the shell gravel was never compressed into chalk. Silviks Nature Reserve preserves an early industrial landscape – the shell gravel was mined here in the late 1800s as an ingredient in fertiliser and construction. … Continue readingPaths
On Sunday, in a desperate attempt to breath air not thickened with birch pollen, I took myself off on a round trip by ferry in the southern archipelago. The ferry was Ylva, a double decked ferry with a cafeteria on the upper deck, and we cruised around to Asperö, Brännö, Köpstad, Källö, Vargö and Styrsö. All for the price of one local transport ticket. It’s a good deal if you are in town. The trip to and from Saltholmen takes about 90 minutes. Follow this link for pdf brochures in Swedish, English and German. Breathing clear sea air was a blessed relief and the sun was warm, though the wind was a bit chilly.
Above: Passengers board the ferry at Brännö (I think).
Below: The interior of the ferry – the seats curve to follow the curve of the ship’s side.
Bottom: A pilot boat cutting across out path, cuaght through one of the forward portholes. … Continue readingThe archipelago ferry
A golden sunset, the top of a flagstaff and the facade of a block of flats in Rambergstan. The air is heavy with birch pollen. This spring we’ve had pollen counts higher than for any spring in the last 20 years – and don’t I know it. … Continue readingGolden sunset