Start of the return journey - La Malouine goes back to La Rochelle - 26 May 2016

Thursday 26, after working hours, we were driven to Rangsta to bring La Malouine from there to Södertälje, in order to ensure that the crew coming from France to bring La Malouine back there, can easily access her through public transport. Rain, fog and cold...

This its the reverse trip as the one that took place at the end of September, when I brought back La Malouine from Löparö to Rangsta. In September, Käringholmen had long been abandoned by mating cormorans, and was left to her ghost status after life was pretty much killed by their dejections. End of May, June is the bird mating time, and thousands of them are nesting on such islands in the archipelago. You can smell them miles ahead...

Käringholmen, in May, when cormorans are mating

Quitte a crew indeed,

Hélène and Marie, the half crew that will bring La Malouine back to roots!

Along the buoys in the Södertälje canal, quite a few encounters with big ships on their way out too the Baltic sea. Quite a pleasure with the crew in charge!

Södertälje traffic