Sweden: The sound of lake Övre Gla
Friday, August 7, 2009 at 16:56
admin in Places, recording

As I wrote in my previous post, the Swedish lakes are so peaceful, quiet and beautiful. Especially the ones without a lot of motorized boats and far away from busy roads. The only thing you hear while paddling around is yourself, touching the water, and in this case you hear the sound of  my breath and my raincoat now and then. It's not so much the sound of the place itself this time, as it was very quiet. 

It was a rainy week, luckily we only had a little rain when we were on the water. It took us about five hours to paddle around the island in the middle of the lake. A beautiful, rocky island with lots of wild blueberries, providing a nice dessert to our lunch.

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