Sunday Walk On Karkali Nature Reserve

May 2012

Spring time is great in nature. Birds, actually all animals, are in a great hurry of building nests, getting 'a family' together, planning new members for their families and so on. Plants are growing rapidly. Flowers are in bloom.

Spent a sunny Sunday on Karkali Nature Reserve a week ago. Situated about an hour's drive west from Helsinki, on a peninsula within Lake Lohja.

Terrain favoured herb plants like anemones. And there were lots of them, white, blue and even yellow ones. Mostly Karkali peninsula was covered by deep forest, had some steep rocks near the waterline. Anemones grew in deep forest, too.

There were some marked walking routes, longest about 6km. Stepping off the routes were prohibited. Parking lot was full. Met lots of families with their kids, birdwatchers and other people who enjoyed a lazy Sunday in nature.

Certainly it was a nice place to visit, especially during Spring.

Walked route by GPS (view in a larger map):

Karkali Strict Nature Reserve

Welcome!

Paths

Downhill

Uphill

Slow lefthand corner

Into a coniferous forest

Duckboards

Straight on

Turn right

Hop off

Anemones, Anemones, more Anemones

Aren't they beautiful?

Gosh. loads of them

Even more

On both sides

Damage on Boxing Day

Even coniferous forest had them

He's got a great knowledge of nature,  PPP

Wildlife

A Wood Warbler

A Blue Tit

A Great Tit

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Duckboards are not only for human beings

Show me your tongue and I'll show you mine

Plants

Spring flowers in bloom

A White Anemone

A Yellow Anemone

A Blue Anemone

We're not Anemones!

A Kingcup

Tree alike

It's green out there!

Fungus

Retired some time ago

New branch, new life

New Juniper berries, a Gin & Tonic, please!

Colourful moss

There's a nut tree near by

Acqua

A shallow pond

Wetland

Layered

What's Not Allowed?

Hopping with a rope?