Our last day on Getterön was warm and sunny, and we were going to spend it in the nature reserve.
Getterön is a peninsula, but until 1936 it was an island. Then the sound between Getterön and the mainland was filled out, and Sweden lost one of its 80,000 islands 🙂 There are two nature reserves at Getterön. One is a bird sanctuary, and the other one is Western Getterön Nature Reserve, also called Gubbanäsan. It was the latter one, we were interested in.
The bedrock of the western part of Getterön consists of 1.45 billion years old charnockite, which is a rock formed at high temperature and high pressure. It is a magma that was pushed up from the Earth’s crust and got solidified. This is the rock from which Varberg’s fortress is built.
We walked around, climbed those huge rock formations, took breaks and adored the landscapes.
Flemming tried to collect some juniper berries, but the needles of the trees were so sharp, he quickly gave up!
We had the time to go for a swim, and made our way to the beach.
There are 5 beaches on Getterön, and my favourite is Femte Vik.
After swimming, we had a coffee at one of the restraurants overlooking the sea, and walked to the airport.
Incredibly many tiny and colouful batterflies were in the air. Often they would sit on those warm rocks (warming up their feet?) – and I would film them:
The path sometimes went through the bushes,
other times – by the sea:
I the airport, I prepared my OY-9797 for the flight.
Taxiing to the runway, we saw the house where we had stayed:
Varberg looked a bit empty from air. The market was gone…
We continued by the coast. There is always a lot to see from air – small and big towns, islands and beaches, sea and clouds…
In my flying club in Holbæk, everything was fine. Some pilots were flying, some left home after a flight…
It was a very nice 3-day trip we had. Flemming and I were full of good impressions and … yes, wanted to fly back to Getterön soon again.