#fjard

[mothmiso]

Ireland - Killary Fjord (2) (3) (4) (5) by tombomba2

[dullandpointless]

Last of the Connemara photos. July 2016

A beach on the Connemara Loop, some trees in the Ballynahinch estate and Killary Fjord. One of Irelands three fjords. (It's actually a "fjard" .....and Carlingford's better anyway)

[dobrichovsky]

Fjard trip

Since we live so close to the sea, we decided to pay it a visit last Sunday. I picked a place on the map which looked interesting enough on Google Earth, together with the road leading there being marked as a "scenic drive" in the road atlas. After waking up we met at Bollen at 2.30pm and set off on our trip. Even though the Bråviken fjard stretches all the way to Norrköping, our destination was Tyrislöt, part of an island just 60km southeast. Notice the use of the word "fjard"—it describes a sea inlet that is relatively short, shallow and wide—very typical for Sweden's Baltic coast. It is not a "fjord"—that is a long and narrow inlet with steep cliffs found all along the coast of Norway. Our first stop was at Skällvik—basically we just randomly stopped there after seeing the church from the road.

The wooden structure you see in the picture is a belfry—a seperate tower where you would find the bells. We decided to stop at the right place—the ruins of Stegeborg Castle are just around the corner.

The castle is situated on an island in the Slätbaken inlet and its purpose was to guard the approach to Söderköping, with the first parts of the castle being built in the 13th century.

On a pier at Slätbaken.

You can cross Slätbaken on a ferry, it is only 250 metres accross.

There sure must have been a pretty intense storm recently.

And there's a Volkswagen Transporter enthusiast in Skällvik.

We then headed on to our destination—the proper sea at Tyrislöt.

There's a tourist trail that guides you around Tyrislöt, but it doesn't actually take you to the sea. Instead it teaches you the names of animals in Swedish, which is not bad either.

With the help of a blurred map on the iPhone (no data connection out there) and an position indicator suggesting our direction towards the blue part of the map, we finally arrived where we wanted.

I never actually planned the exact point of where to go, so it was somewhat hit or miss—and originally the image I had in my head was of a view of the open sea, but this little bay we found was in fact a very nice place to be. It was surrounded by several weekend-houses and piers for each one of them. No wonder that every 3rd Swedish family owns a boat. Gazing into the water, we noticed a disturbing number of jellyfish—I thought jellyfish were only found in warm waters, but apparently they are a common sight in the Baltic.

According to Wikipedia, we are most likely looking at a moon jellyfish—Aurelia aurita.

[thethorstontwins]

the word "whet" makes my friend angry it's kind of funny

[panthersprite]

fjard replied to your post: When you said Razer was an adorable dick i just...

you literally get the best anons omfg

precious anons

[panthersprite]

Boku no Pico. (◡‿◡✿)

i know what that is so no

[fjardyozzfjard]

I know I only have three followers, but I'm bored as shit. I guess this picture can be used for future reference.