Green Foxy's summer 171

Gotland trip
part 4

2017

Caves, graves, a church,
sheep, limestone quarry.

The caves
2017-08-18. Me in the caves. Here I have my orange shell jacket over my green jacket. It was raining outside and it was chilly in the caves. It was good to have the shell jacket on.
2017-08-18. Here I'm coming out from the caves. It stopped raining.
2017-08-18. Let's take a look in the caves.
2017-08-18. It's dark in the caves but they put on lights.
2017-08-18. There is a path so it's easy to go there.
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2017-08-18. The guide told us there is so much water in winter so the caves are flooded. Then they can't let visitors go there.
2017-08-18. Some pictures of nature art in the caves.
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2017-08-18. It looks like there are some small ghosts on the walls.
2017-08-18. More ghosts.
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2017-08-18. Ove in the caves.
2017-08-18. Here is a fence. There is deep water on the other side.
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To Fårö
2017-08-18. I took this picture from the bus window. We are waiting for the ferry to the island Fårö. (Sheep Island).
2017-08-18. Now our bus was on the boat. I took the pictures from the bus window.
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2017-08-18. We had lunch in a restaurant that belongs to a school for officers.
2017-08-18. Schnitzel with fried potatoes and vegetables.
2017-08-18. They had nice flowers on the tables.
2017-08-18. A poppy.
2017-08-18. The aria there the school is.
2017-08-18. Ove taking pictures
2017-08-18. Nice tagetus
2017-08-18. Pines.
2017-08-18. Ove and the pines in the background.
2017-08-18. Pines
2017-08-18. Me walking.
 

Graves and a church
2017-08-18. Ingmar and Ingrid Bergman's grave.
2017-08-18. The wall by the churchyard.
2017-08-18. An insect named fire bug (Eldlus) sitting on the wall of the church.
2017-08-18. The Fårö church.
2017-08-18. The Fårö Church.
2017-08-18. Interior in the Fårö Church.
2017-08-18. A beautiful carpet.
2017-08-18. Interior in the Fårö Church.
2017-08-18. Burial ground.
2017-08-18. An old sheep house with a roof of "ag" = saw grass,  twig-rush.
An old sheep house with a roof of "ag" = saw grass,  twig-rush.
2017-08-18. Inside the sheep house.
2017-08-18. They connected the balks on the roof like this.
2017-08-18. The sea
2017-08-18. The sea.

Sheep
2017-08-18. The sheep were going free.
2017-08-18. Sheep
2017-08-18. Those sheep were so funny. There was a lot of laughter in our bus about them.
2017-08-18. The came in the wrong area. There are fences, but on the roads are cattle grid.
2017-08-18. The man opened a little fence on the road there no cattle grid is. They must pass there to come in the right area again.
2017-08-18. Some of the sheep started fighting.
2017-08-18. At least they went into the woods.
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2017-08-18. Now all were in the woods.  But.............
2017-08-18. Soon they were on the road again :-)
2017-08-18. People has to drive slowly and watch out.
2017-08-18. It was time to go back to Gotland with the ferry.
2017-08-18. We met the ferry that goes in the other direction.

Limestone quarry
2017-08-18. We were looking at the limestone quarry. They had made a viewpoint so we could see it.
2017-08-18. Limestone quarry
2017-08-18. Ove sitting on a wall by the bus.
2017-08-18. Ove sitting on a wall. The limestone quarry in the background
2017-08-18. In the evening we had a delicious fish dinner in the restaurant. Salmon baked in the oven.

Photo: Wilhelmina and Ove Schedin

Wilhelmina Schedin 2017-12-10