The Baltic Sea

 As soon as we got closer to the Baltic Sea — were only 60 km from it when — the wind got significantly stronger, my phone claimed that we had 50km/h headwind, which actually happened to be really realistic, the car used 0.5l/100km more(!) on that stretch of our journey. Soon we had the first glimpse of the Baltic Sea! It was beautiful. However there was a huge cliff between us and the water, so we had to find a way down. We happened to find a beautiful waterfall called Saka juga. Next to the waterfall happened to be a staircase that led us to the coast thru a beautiful jungle-alike forest-y plateau. The wind only quieted down between the trees, as soon as we got out of the woods we got the 50km/h wind in our faces. 

While Sari was still in the forest I quickly took of my trousers, and ran into the sea — I was afraid she wouldn’t have let me. The water was pretty cold, huge waves were almost hitting my power-source and the wind made the whole experience a little bit more uncomfortable. It wasn’t the best dip in the sea, however it was one of my most memorable dips.


After I got dried we climbed up the stairs to the car, took some pictures of the scenery and got the car before we would’ve frozen to death. Besides cold we were also starving, so we had to start looking for some forest-y place where the wind wouldn’t blow kill our gas stove. We basically haven’t eaten anything yet, except for some junk-food we picked up at a store on our was North. At that shop I found something that I hadn’t had in the last 10 years; algae snacks. They have a similar package to cookies, however inside you can only find paper thin five-times-five centimeter peaces of algae. And oh boy it tasted so good! One of my favorite snacks! 

We found a nice parking lot eventually, next to a beautiful forest. The parking lot was almost empty only a camper van was parked next to us. We hiked around for a tiny bit, met the camper van’s owners and got back to the car. As we were cooking the vanlifers were packing to leave. While I was sitting on the ground chopping the onion on a cutting board on my suitcase, we made eye contact with them and they gave us that ‘you guys are rocking it’ look. No words, just the look that said more than any words could have said. It was really positive feedback from a fellow traveler.


Our plan was to stop on the way somewhere dark and check if we could saw the northern lights. I’ve found a place that was claimed to be a great spot for northern light watching, so we took a little detour to see what’s what. The place was in the national park of Lahemaa. As we were driving thru the dark forests of the national park we thought we had a chance, but unfortunately as we got out of the woods it was suddenly daylight again. The reason behind this is the future you go from the Equator the longer the sunsets are gonna be, which meant that when we got to Tallinn it still wasn’t completely dark although it was almost 2200! So there was no northern lights for us.

We’ve gotten to our accommodation just in time, before the gates were closed, it was a close call, but we made it.

I’ll continue the blog with our sightseeing tour in Tallinn; till then,

Take care,

Almos

 

Location: Lahemaa National Park, Estonia

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