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Old 11-21-2019, 12:57 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Happy Frog View Post
I have been boating in the Baltic Sea for ages. Mainly in the outer Archipelago natural park. Our trips range from weekends to several weeks. Typically we stay in unhabited island, often several days in a row before moving to next island. Try to attach a photo of one favorite place. Might do some fishing, hiking, scubadiving, or just enjoy good coffee and scenery. There are just thousands of amazing islands. To be precise, about 40 000 if we include the small ones. That’s where my soul is at home.

Some nice features of the Baltic Sea: practically no tide and no strong currents. You can plan your trips so that you can get in a sheltered area easily in hour or two. In the Archipelago there are plenty of rocks and shallow areas. Makes navigation interesting. Especially if it gets foggy or dark, but I enjoy every second. Don’t know anything better than listening to the wind and rain (or snowing in late autumn) in a remote sheltered bay and drinking champagne with candle light!

I have to admit that part of my heart is in PNW, I just love the Puget Sound all the way to Victoria and would love to go to Alaska via the inside passage. The scenery with mountains in the background is awesome.

So, great to be here!
Welcome!

I must admit I had to look at your post, and that photo, twice to be sure I was seeing it correctly. Coming from a part of the world where an 8 (or more) foot tide is the norm, hearing of such moderate ones in what I thought was a large sea was odd. I read up on the Baltic, and everthing says its because the sea isn't large enough to have its own major tide, and its inlet is too small to allow much of the North Sea tide in. Crazy. It would probably be about the same shock for me to go to our Great Lakes where, for the most part, the daily water level doesn't change.

Puget Sound where I live has a lot of freshwater feeding it, like the Baltic Sea. How does that influence the marine life there? We have a lot, but we also have a huge tidal exchange and I wonder if that somehow helps.

It would be very cool to be able to tie up in rocks like you can; I just can't see many places around here to do that! Please share more of your experiences; you may think its old hat, but many of us have never been there and likely never will on our own bottoms.

Again, welcome!
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