Cancer

Our little wandering-group made another trip today, this time, on the warmest day of the summer so far, we went to the deep woods on the mainland, an hour by car from where I live. 
 
It's a plateau of primary rock, some 300 metres above sea level , shaped by the latest ice age 12000 years ago. The ice was several kilometres thick and had a volume of 130 miljon cubic metres. Its enormous weight pressed Sweden 1000 metres lower than today. The land is still rising, satellites has calculated that the Bothnian bay is still 100 metres closer to earth center than the rest of the world.

The nature is very wild, with Pine forests growing on very poor soil but also marshes, hills and lakes. A hot day like today it was extremely hot in the places where the forest had been taken down, compared to the relative cool in the shade of the trees. We had a very nice 7 km walk through extreme variety of forest, plants, rocks, streams and lakes. It feels very, very old and you get reminded of the ice age all the time. The main is a "Vril" in Swedish, the translator calls it a 'burl', a kind of a cancer on the tree trunk, in this case a birch tree. Often they are used to make sculptures or bowls from. The extra is the small group of today, right after our 'fika' spot on the hill.

The start and end points of the walk was a lake and we really enjoyed a swim in the cool lake afterwards.