On route to Storulvån 110613 Monday

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Stockholm on route to Storulvån, 110613 Monday

As there are always trouble with comunications I decided to go to Stockholm with an earlier train. Lately there has been trouble with delays due to suncurves and runover cows. :) Yea, the news said so.

I  took the train at 15.23 from Katrineholm and, actually, got to Stockholm at 16.40 as sceduled.

I walked around town to see if there were something interesting to shooot. But found very little. The city is not interesting in daylight I suppose. I wanted some shots of the castle and City hall for the blogs but.....I had to settle for sunshine and nice weather.

The Royal castle

The City Hall

I visited the royal castle but there were lots of building stuff as they were working on repairs or whatever. But I did take a shot at the guards. The same with the The City town hall, lots of work going on there as well.

I went back to the trainstation to look for PizzaHut. I found it but they did not have Hawaii so I went searching for a hot dog instead. The train going north was, of course, late. We were able to embark 15 min after ordinary time but it did not leave until 23.00. Did not matter really as we were to sleep anyway.

We were 6 ladies in the room and we made the beds right away. It was quite OK to sleep on the train but sometimes I half awoke when I started to slide up or down when the train passed a curve.  At 5 people started to leave the train. And after that there was no more sleep.

Tomorrow I´ll be at Enafors and Storulvån.

More on Storulvån here:

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Malta 110424 Sunday, Simar

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Malta 110424 Sunday, Simar

Finally a morning when I can sleep. Yet I woke up at 8.00. I had some breakfast and made myself ready for a walk. At 9.30 I left for Simar. I had figured it would take me little more then an hour to walk the distance. I took the streets closest to the water. It was quite nice, sun shining and not too hot. Took some shots along the way. I did stop to shoot a palmtree and a Maltesian gentleman run up to assist me. The palmtree was full of thorns so I appreciated the effort. :)  I also made a stop at a currency machine and at the WC at the divingsite. Just to make sure. :)

When I arrived at Simar refugee I had some trouble locating the entrance. And when I found it it was closed. As I suspected. I had been walking more then an hour and they did not care to open. Despite every place I read about it said it should be open between 10 - 16h. :( Well, I circled the place but did not see much as it was surrounded by dense bushes. But some birds flew in and out so it was not a complete loss. But no waterbirds as I wanted to see. But one bird of prey and some swallows flew around. And sparrows of course. Not much for an island famous for migrating birds. I found a field of Artichoke on the back of the site. Was thinking of harversting one but they were not mature.

On my way back I found my family at the square, so we took the opportunity to sit down and eat. Tehn we had some rest at the hotel before leaving to visit Peter and Véronique. It turned out to be a homewarming party. All divers, Janet and me and some friends to P and V was there. We had some sallad and barbequed meat and sausage. It was very nice. But it got cold after a while.

They had a marvellous appartment. Large with several rooms and the biggest balcony I have ever seen. With a great view as it was the top appartment. And... the lift went directly into the appartment. Cool! Never seen that before.

We left the party at 20.30 Because tomorrow is "Swimming with Dolpins".

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More on Malta here:

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Camargue 2010-05-01 Resan startar

Saintes Maries de la Mer, Capitale de La Camargue

1 maj
Gick till incheck ca kl 4.30. Träffade 4 av deltagarna.
06.55 planet lyfte. Vi fick fika. Plåtade lite på planet då jag hade fönsterplats. .
09.50 landat i Paris, skymtade tornet.
11.30 lyfte t f MP. Landat 12.50


En  resväska ville inte följa med ner. Så  det blev lite strul till att börja med.
Medan vi väntade på bilarna roade jag mig med att plåta svalor. Efter att hämtat ut bilarna körde vi 5.5 mil till hotell Les Palmiers en Camargue. Här är det trångt på gatorna pg av helgen, så vi fick problem m parkering av bilarna.

Siktat på vägen dit:
Rallhäger, röd glada, kohäger, styltlöpare, flamingo, strandskata, kull m andungar.

Incheck och uppackning. Vi ska träffas igen kl 17.

Litte lättare skådning  i området kring hotellet. Den lilla sjön heter Etang des Launes (plats 1). Redan där såg vi en hel del. Turturduva, stenskvätta, dykand, gravand, fisktärna, flamingo, silkeshäger, rörhöna, steglits, svalor mm.

Vi fortsatte ner mot Medelhavsstranden (plats 2) där de vindsurfade och kollade lite havsfågel.

Vi träffades igen kl 19.15 för genomgång av dagens arter. Sedan gick vi till restaurangen. Det blev fisk t middag. Tog en bit brie som dessert. Satt m Richard Ottvall m fl vid middagen. Bra tillfälle att lära känna vår guide. :)

Kom hem t hotellet ca 22.00. Gick och la mig och somnade bums.

Några bilder från dagen, klicka för att se förstoring:

Silkeshäger - Egretta garzetta - Little Egret

En kändis hemifrån satt i buskarna ett stycke bort,

Steglits - Carduelis carduelis - European Goldfinch

Och här skådas det havsfågel vid Medelhavets strand.