Friday, August 28, 2020

Limpan's caves

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  An evening outing to a promised 30+ meter cave. Turns out there are three, with the biggest one 45 meters. Roof caves, so not so cave like...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

More cave searches, based merely on the name

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Inspired by Ralf's observation of cave-like names in the countryside, I searched for more caves from the Finnish map databases, and came...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Siitoonmäen lippaluola -- Roof cave in Nummi-Pusula

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  I've been using the new Luolaseura map app and database to look for nearby caves that I have not been to. This is now much more conve...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Back to L.U.U.K.K.I. - Kaitalampi swim

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I had already visited Luukki earlier , And had parking trouble, had to pay fees, etc. But it turns out the Luukki area has another lake as w...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Häkläjärvi swim: deep layer of mud covered by a thin layer of water

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It looks pretty. But on my side of the lake, there's maybe half a meter of water, and ... at least a meter, maybe more of organic mush, ...

Velskolan Pitkäjärvi swim

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There's a nice road going alongside the Velskolan pitkäjärvi (Velskola's long lake). Unfortunately, parking is very difficult to fin...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Social distancing in the Social Island: Seurasaari swim

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After the Munkkiniemi swim I wanted more :-) and went to Seurasaari ("Social Island"). By now it was past 9pm, and there were on...

Mud, and a bit water on top: Munkkiniemenranta swim

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When my work runs late in the evening (as it often does, due to working with other timezones) that causes a problem for hobbies later in the...

Långvik beach

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Another day, another beach, another blue-green algae warning. I was at the Långvik beach in Kirkkonummi. It turned out that the water looked...

Boulder on rocks

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My swim at the Träskbyträsket yielded an unexpected benefit: a boulder cave. A huge piece of rock standing on four other rocks, as if by de...