Cloudbusting 393, Sea Sky Watch Friday

Skywatching at sea should be so much fun. From a sundeck of a large boat there is unlimited views to all directions. Only problem is that the skies are usually quite boring at sea. I have sailed on very small and very large boats and everything in between. I have been out on the sea at winter and summer and the skies are never that good above the sea.


This time around it was different and the morning at 7 am provided some good views like this UFO searching for intelligent life from the sea.


There is nothing like coming home though! The end of the journey. Happy Skywatch Friday to everybody!

Cloudbusting 392, Stockholm Gamla Stan Stortorget

Houses by the Stockholm Gamla Stan Stortorget.


A devil of a figure from the fountain of Stortorget. I completely forgot to snap a photo from Svenska Akademin and Nobelmuseum after seeing this fella.

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Wandering around the ring highways
circling the city somewhere there far away
trailers,caravans, trucks, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles
stones, furniture and other garden stuff
All here on rainy and muddy hills
locked behind the endless chicken fences
and huge rain swept parking lots
They should have the flood lights on at noon
I feel so tired already
it´s the july backlash, hah haa

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Up on the hill
behind the green bushes
a teeny weeny fortress
for dreams
clouds
love
everything lovely
not war of course
If you have a similar one
please do share!

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These both views are cliches but I still like them. The first one is Helsinki seen from the deck of a boat. The view has been the same for decades and there must be millions of variations from this same view. The afternoon cumulus clouds reaching their peak above Helsinki just before the 5pm departure. Bye bye, Helsinki!



This is the view people see in half the cases when they arrive 9am to Sweden with a boat from Finland. The suburb of Gärdet in the western part of Stockholm. The clouds promise a lot.

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Stockholm´s Gamla Stan is mostly build around 1200. It is so much different than the places I usually go. The houses are tall and the streets are narrow. Just a small slice of the sky is visible from the deep cobbled stone streets. The photos become vertical almost by default as landscape mode is not so good here.

Sometimes the sky is just a hint or even less up there between the eaves.

Another better version by JC here.

Another better and sunny version by Susupetal here.

Just keep the clone-photos coming up and I´ll add them here. I just dived to this alley to duck a car and snapped this one quickly. Now I found out that it´s the most photographed alley in Gamla Stan. I feel so depressed that I want to take it off but I can´t do it anymore...I mean it´s one ice-cream cafe latte tourist hell, but still...keep them coming...

Cloudbusting 387, Slussen Sky Watch

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte aka Karl XIV Johan continues his eternal ride at Slussen, one of Stockholm´s central traffic points.

Instead of the swanky Gamla Stan of Stockholm, Karl has to watch the skyline of Södermalm (back) and the always stained decaying urban wonders of Slussen (front). Guy in the red jacket is out to catch some morning fish. Morning temperature has already risen to +17C (63F) and it predicts a day temperature of just below +30C (86F) which is a lot in these parts of the world.



06:00. The Gondolen clock is always the one in Stockholm that´s seen from almost everywhere. Gondolen is a restaurant with magnificent views. I´ve seen it far too many times in my life but never been inside. I don´t belong up there as it must be too posh for me.

This was my Sky Watch Friday. See there more skies from all over the world.