After an hour's drive from downtown Gothenburg, the small port of Rönnäng is the terminus of route 169 which crosses the island of Tjörn.
Azure sky, 22°C, light breeze… Everything seems to be fine for an outing in the Bohuslän archipelago.
Barely time to park our Volvo that a semi-rigid looms in the channel and takes us to the island of Hamneskär.
Equipped with a safety harness, we are off for about twenty minutes of navigation.
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We are here at the crossroads of two maritime areas, the Skagerrak and the Kattegatt, and there is sometimes a lot of current.
Better have some power in reserve
explains Matthias as he throttles up to glide above the chop.
Our destination: Pater Noster, a lighthouse that has been out of business since 1977, has recently become a hotel with extraordinary charm.
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As the red silhouette of the metallic tower begins to imprint itself on the horizon, our skipper shows us a colony of seals in…
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