Spithamn

Geodashing Dashpoint Log
2016-08-29 19:25:53 UTC
GDDE-MUSU

Player: Haraldpoiss
Team:   FinEst Dashers

GDDE-MUSU is near Nõva, Estonia.

> Date, Points, TeamPoints, Dashpoint, Country, State, Lat, Lon, Distance
2016-08-20, 3, 3, GDDE-MUSU, Estonia, , 59.2140, 23.5462, 0

New extreme west  visit this year for Estonia: GDDE-MUSU
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Number of previous hunts by Haraldpoiss: 83

The point had fallen to the forest near the village named Spithamn, in the most north-western corner of Estonia. It's the Coastal Swedish district, where mostly Swedish people used to live few centuries ago. Almost all of them fled back to Sweden before the end of 2nd World War, so they ain't there any more nowadays, but the names of the villages are still Swedish.

It was possible to drive to 350m, from where I continued my approach through the forest. The carpet of cowberries and blueberries had been laid down everywhere on the ground. I ate huge amount of them on the way, and it was impossible to make a step without getting them between my feet and sandals, their juice making purple spots on my socks. So if you wanna pick berries in Estonia, then that's really the place, where to go.

The point was only 100m from the coastline, so afterwards I went to the sea to take a small walk on the beach. But it was so nice and pleasant there, that I ended up walking 8km one way and then back. I went swimming 3 times on the way. I never knew that we have shrimps in Estonia, but now I know that we do have them in this place. And they are huge there, having 15cm total length from the head to the end of tail, which I've never seen before in my life. So it's no wonder that the whole beach was full of fishermen, who were fishing out shrimps.

As I actually hadn't planned to spend the whole day out there, I didn't have any food with me, so I was pretty hungry when I reached back home 11pm in the evening.

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fishermen at work

sunset between Põõsaspea peninsula (on the left) and Osmussaar, the tiny island on the right

Tuula

Geodashing Dashpoint Log
2016-08-28 18:44:41 UTC
GDDE-MYYN

Player: Haraldpoiss
Team:   FinEst Dashers

GDDE-MYYN is near Ääsmäe, Estonia.

> Date, Points, TeamPoints, Dashpoint, Country, State, Lat, Lon, Distance
2016-08-13, 3, 3, GDDE-MYYN, Estonia, , 59.2586, 24.4829, 0

Number of previous hunts by Haraldpoiss: 82

It's the first dashpoint near Tallinn this year, that's been accessible by public transport. The bus dropped me off 2km from the destination. It had been raining almost the whole day and later it started raining again. The point was in the middle of a meadow. There were some cranes on it that flew away when I approached. There was a big yellow field of rapeseed nearby. Rowans were ready on the trees. I also found some dewberries, gooseberries and wood sorrel from the forest.

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a couple of cranes as seen from the dashpoint

swimming?

say hello to a snail!