Today we go 68.4 NM and reach Lerkil at 23:00 pm. It is a long trip and it rains almost all day. But we want to go further north and reach the skerries behind Göteborg on this vacation, so we have to bring some distance behind us.Getting further north the water of the baltic sea is becoming clearer. We see schools of fish swimming in front of Madita's bug. The landscape is getting meager and rockier.While sailing through darkness the only other light are of some lighthouses far away. We feel a little lonely out here in the dark. When seeing the lights of a towboat close to us, we feel much better.Reaching Lerkil we pass the first real skerries. Lerkil is a rather small place with about 500 inhabitants. Since we arrive late that evening and leave the next morning, we see not much more than the harbor. But still, here we a farer north than we have ever been before with Madita.
A last view back on Slot Kronborg at the danish side of the Öresund and after a short while we are leaving the Danish straits and enter the Kattegat. Although the wind still blows with moderat 4 Beaufort we feel that it is moving water on a larger area than before. The landscape is changing slightly as well turning in more rocks and leads prominent vegetation. 30.5 NM later we reach Torekov a famous summer seaside resort. Here we get a real feeling of long relaxed summer days. The place is busy but not crowded and everyone is laid-back.At a place, which is surrounded by old houses and where the base of an old church can be seen in the ground we learned the story of St. Thora, who gave Torekov it's name.Thora was a beautiful princess, who was send out at the Baltic Sea on a ship, which her evil stepmother prepared to sink. Thora drowned and was wash on the beach, where the blind fisherman Frenne found her corpse laying next to a stone west of the contemporary harbor. He picked her up and buried her. This act of mercy caused that Frenne got his sight back. Out of gratefulness he build a small chapel, which was later in the early medieval extended into a church. The church unfortunately burned down during a big fire in 1858 and was not rebuild. Only the base was kept for remembrance and the place is now a meeting point for long summer evenings, sitting outside in one of the restaurants around the place or having a delicious ice creme and let the children play there.
Although Malmö was a very decent place, we are not eager to visit a city again. But we need to get some provisions especially fresh fruits and vegetables, before we head further north. And more important, we have no paper sea charts of the west-swedish skerries. In case that the electronic navigation devices breaks down, it would be very important in that area of granite rocks and islands to have the paper charts at hand. So being in Helsinborg is just a provisioning stop and we can not really tell anything about this place which might have nieces spots as well. But we recall our last year's journey when we stopped at the opposite side of the Öresund in Helsingnor and visited Slot Kronborg. We enjoyed our visit of the castel very much. The children were very much impressed by the story how Shakespeare came to write his Hamlet. He never visited Denmark nor the castel. But when it was newly built at that time, the news about its beauty and splendor spread fast and when it reached England, Shakespeare was so impressed and fascinated that he let his stage play of the unhappy danish price take place at the very castel.
