![]() It is easy to get nose and cheek frost bites then especially when like this winter when there is very strong winds too. Last time that happened was in the eighties. Minus 15 is not so bad but when it gets down to minus 30 in the Stockholm and Vaxholm area (last time in the eighties) it is far more of a problem than in the north because it is much more humid here normally. ![]() Usually no problems with my cameras lubrication, because of the cold but if you take in a camera from -15 degrees into a warm and humid restaurant it might be a bad idea to switch the lens there before it gets warm because of condensation that might occur on glas, mirrors and sensors. People at some of the more remote and isolated islands with no regular boat traffic get to go by helicopter once a week here in the winter time. Some of the Waxholm -boats like Waxholm 1 have cranes and are used to transport all sorts of goods throughout the 30 000 islands out here. I have a childhood friend working on one of these state icebreakers. ![]() These older boats don´t get stuck normally (sometimes when it´s bad they just don´t go to certain jetties but it happens up north but there we have a few really big very specialized icebreakers that escorts convoys of cargo ships. No, it is not the same boat on the to pictures in my earlier post. ![]() Waxholm fortress that stopped Stockholm from being attacked by the Danish fleet in the sixteen houndreds and the Russian fleet in the seventeenhoundreds. ![]()
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