Sun rise 5:16

If you love to witness the sun rise you have to rise up early. Today I managed to stand up round 4:15 and half an hour later I stood at the sandy beach of Harrbäckssand to see the sun coming up. Well, sandy beach it is in summer, now the shore is covered with snow and ice. And today it was even quite cold with temperatures round -12 °C. This may be the last “real” winter day this season, but you never know, last year it snowed in May.

5:16 the first bright orange beams of the sun appeared behind the island Medgrundet.

Ice flows and sun rise

Minutes later the sun illuminated ice, snow and pine trees with warm colours between orange and pink.

Harrbäckssand

I loved the swirly ice patterns on the half frozen water of the shallow beach.

Ice swirls at Harrbäckssand

After a while I drove home again and took an additional nap. 4:15 is too early, even for me.

 

5 comments to “Sun rise 5:16”

  1. Annika 2015-03-26 16:53

    Und das, obwohl doch jeder weiß, dass es in Schweden immer dunkel ist!

  2. way-up-north 2015-03-26 17:16

    Genau. Tagelang musste ich belichten, um diese Bilder zu machen!

  3. Annika 2015-03-26 19:01

    Darum bist Du auch so müde :-D

  4. Visit Skellefteå 2015-04-13 21:15

    We love your pics!! The nap dreams after that view it must have been incredible :P

  5. way-up-north 2015-04-13 22:06

    Thank you, Visit Skellefteå. I guess it was a quite dreamless sleep, but I don’t remember anymore.

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