A stroll through the bog Torsmyran
Yesterday I visited the bog Torsmyran again. It has been almost five years since I was there. Torsmyran is a nature reserve that lies by the road E4. You can park there and easily walk on the wooden planks to the observation platform.
I have my long walking stick with me, both mobile phone and camera are waterproof and spare clothes are in the car. I am ready to leave the wooden walkway and take some photos. There are some heather-covered ridges that lead through the labyrinth of peat moss and ponds. Here it is easy to walk. Sometimes there are wet, mossy passages. And there is an old boardwalk crossing the bog, but would you trust it?
So it is not easy to reach some of the motives and for each photo I take there are five others I didn’t because there was no way to get there.
Taking photos takes some time, not only because of the terrain but also because I sometimes wait for a cloud to pass. The intense bog colours in sunshine are incredible.
After some hours of taking photos and finding routes through the maze I go back to the platform and then the car. I gladly change into clean and dry clothes and I think, I should pay Torsmyran a visit more often than every five years.








2 comments to “A stroll through the bog Torsmyran”
Matthias Mainz 2025-08-13 10:03
Lieber Olaf, ich kann mir Dich so gut vorstellen, auf einer Planke mit Kamera knieend, bereit, abzudrücken, während Du das Vorbeiziehen einer Wolke ironisch kommentierend abwartest…
way-up-north 2025-08-14 19:29
There’s always a silver lining …