The Baggenstäket is a narrow and shallow canal joining Stockholm to the southern part of the Archipelago. It used to be the main entrance to Stockholm until the end of the middle ages. It remained afterwards a rote for smuggling goods without having to pay a toll fee. This is where the plague entered Sweden in 1710 when the first case was disembarked there from a boat coming from Estonia.  |
| Baggensstäket by Olaus Magnus, 1555, via Wikimedia Commons |
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| Version 2015 |
Today, Baggensstäket is a very nice ride in the archipelago, through which we decide to let Cybele and Belisama take care of us on the way back to our winter quarters in Stockholm.
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| Approaching the entrance of Baggensstäket from Baggensfjärden |
Cybèle
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| Encounters at sea |
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| Refilling on the way in Skurusundet |
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| Valérie and François on Cybèle |
Belisama
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