Myllysaari Boat Club + Bird

Myllysaari is a small island at the end of a chain of islands just off the shore jutting into the lake from the south shore of Lake Vesijärvi. The islands are connected to each other by three bridges.

That's somebody's summer cabin on an island a couple of kilometers away.

The last bridge before the island of Myllysaari itself

I'm a bit hesitant to take pictures of people's back yards but I think this is far enough. There's nothing special going on.

That water tower on the left has a restaurant in it. But it's only open to groups and you have to book it in advance. It's a shame because the views would probably be fantastic if you could go there any time you wanted.

What might that weird platform be.

Ski jumping tower again

There is a restaurant in this building. It will be opened next Monday.

This was taken on the other side of the island. That's a cool motor boat.

The air was quite cool and moist. It started to condensate when the ridge forced it up. The slopes of the Salpausselkä I ridge are steeper on the northern side. That's because the edge of a very tall wall of ice stayed put here for centuries before retreating again at the end of the previous ice age. The ridge was formed out of sand, gravel and moraine sized grains. Anything more fine-grained that that would flow with the water much further out into the south. There are large areas where the soil is very fertile to the south of the ridge. The southern part of the region of Päijänne Tavastia has some large farms. A preschool teacher of my daughter's who retired some years ago is from a village in Orimattila just south of Lahti told me that there are some wealthy farmers there and the community is very patriotic and conservative. It's interesting that the accumulation of silt in a process that took place thousands of years earlier may have such effects on the mentalities of humans.

Does anybody know what species this bird is?