A February visit to the beach

Every time I bike to and from Stockholm I pass nearby the little beach, Hökarängsbadet at Lake Drevviken. And every now and then I will do a detour to see what is happening. The beach is a green lawn during the Summer and often very crowded. On this visit, the entire lawn was ice. How the guy standing next to his bike made it there, I do not know. I was wearing my icebugs, but still had to be careful where I stepped. The young girl in the second photo were preparing to go skating on the still frozen lake, but they took their time, so I decided to leave without getting a snap of her out on the ice.

At the office

"I saw your email and I totally agree. We need to deal with this immediately. I am in the office right now looking at it, and I think we can fix this before close of business".
As seen while standing on the circular jetty at Lake Drevviken taking photos while being observed by a dog earlier this week.

Drevvikens sjöisbana

A lone ice skater calling it a day at the frozen Lake Drevviken earlier this week. A fine Winter day, around 5C and a lot of sunshine. The plowed track is 21 kilometers long. I parked the e-bike on the icy path that was closed because of the icy conditions and walked down to the Hökarängsbadet beach for this panorama. Try here for a larger view.

Ice skating on natural ice

Cycling home from Stockholm, I will often make a little detour to a beach at Lake Drevviken. It is called Hökarängsbadet. The beach is popular in the Summer. There is a boardwalk promenade here with benches, and I will typically take photos from the boardwalk. There is a lot of construction going on nearby, and in a few years time thousands of people will move into this area. During the Winter the place is a lot quieter, at least until the lake freezes that is. When the ice is around 15 centimeters thick, the municipality will plow it for the ice skaters. The track is six kilometers long and will take the skaters through four municipalities. Stockholm, Huddinge, Tyresö and Haninge.

Frozen Lake

The resent cold spell with -10C temperatures is over. But those cold days was all the the lakes at the Rudan nature reserve needed. This is how the Lower Lake looks today. The ice is thick enough to walk on, I gave it a go. During the Summer this place is popular with both anglers and sunbathers, but they stayed at home today!

Frozen Execution Rock

I have shown you this rock before, but as it looked a bit different on this visit, here it is again. Back when Sweden still was a barbaric country we used to execute people at this rock near Hanveden. The last person to die here was the farm worker Anders Gustav Pettersson, who brutally murdered his employer Hugo Fredrik Jaedren at the gates to the Näringsberg estate. That was back in 1855. When I passed the rock earlier in the week I noticed ice and decided to take a few photos.