Cabin holiday

This week Mr. K took me and our friends to North Carelia to our annual fishing holiday. We have stayed at this cabin every August for many years already, just for three days and nights. The men fish, the women run the household, read and knit, everyone is happy. This Summer has been very rainy in Eastern Finland, and the rapids were wide and full of water.

 

 

This was the same spot last year with normal water level:

 

We had a welcoming committee on the landing stage: a merganser family was resting after their diving exercise.

 

 

Mother Merganser, or maybe one of the young ones swimming alone.

 

 

This is the outdoors kitchen/dining room we used for all meals except for the late evening when it was too dark and cold to sit there after the sauna. Coffee water boiling over the open fire.

 

 

 

Rafters on wooden boats and rubber rafts kept us company a couple of times a day. The boats usually turned and came back half way up for a second run.

 

 

Mr. K had a hard time wading knee deep where he usually can walk on dry stones. The fishes were hiding from him mid stream where he could not reach them. With hard work he caught some.

 

 

 

The old sauna on the left and the new big sauna on the right. The wooden pathways have been replaced with gravel.

 

 

Friday morning Mr. K was packing freshly smoked fish to take home.

 



We had a great time, reasonably good weather with just a little rain, temperatures around 12 C/55F but warm clothes kept us comfortable, and delicious meals. If you would like to see more pictures of this place, you can go here and here and here. And my friend Dick's story is here.