Cold, clear and crisp

It’s mid-April and the civil twilight already starts round 4 o’clock. A quite stupid time to wake up, but it happened to me today. Normally I would roll over in my bed and continue sleeping, but the sky was so incredibly clear, that I just had to stand up and take the car to the coast.

As clear the sky was, as cold was the air: -8 °C. Time for gloves and down parka again. East from the peninsula Näsgrundet the Baltic Sea was still open – just as on Monday, when I opened the kayak season.

Ice edge and blue sky on a clear and crisp morning

West from Näsgrundet however, the frost has frozen together the drifting ice floes and put a thin layer of fresh sea ice on the bay Kallholmsfjärden.

A pilot boat in SkelleftehamnKallholmsfjärden froze over last night – Rönnskar in the background

Now I have to get some more sleep, it’s still quite early.

2 comments to “Cold, clear and crisp”

  1. Annika 2016-04-14 19:38

    Ich war ja auch wach (wie soll das nur werden, wenn es nicht mehr dunkel wird), aber weiter als bis zum Balkon habe ich es nicht geschafft :-D Zum Glück kann ich mir ja alles hier im Blog angucken ;-)

  2. way-up-north 2016-04-14 20:05

    Ich habe bestimmt nicht vor, jedes Mal im Hellen aufzuwachen. Aber ab und zu passiert’s eben doch.

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