Three Bridges (not Sussex)

In Kalvehave where we were last night there were hundreds and hundreds of swallows dipping and diving, tweeting away, lining up on the boats and warps and young ones tweeting from their muddy nests under all the eaves. Yes we got a bit of poo on the foredeck but they are forgiven because they're so sweet.

Todays passage was a 7 hour motor into F4 wind and a stream of up to 1.5kn created by that wind, as we wound our slow way along narrow shallow channels and under 3 bridges between islands. You can't draw lines on the chart for this, you just follow the buoys. So we resorted to ticking the buoys on the chart as we passed them, just in case the electronics died - good practice for the Stockholm archipelago next year where this technique is apparently essential.  The shoreline looks very pretty and rural.  

Why struggle west into the wind you might ask - surely in the Baltic you go with it? Well we have to go west at some point so it's better to do it through the comparatively sheltered waters south of Sjaelland. We're now in Bandholm, a tiny commercial harbour on the north coast of Lolland (4 x Isle of Wight). Masses of logs on one quayside and aggregates on the other. The latter just delivered by a ship that did a 3-point turn near us to leave. We found Denmark's oldest bathing platform, but it's closed now for winter already!