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[1/2] Saaremaa is Estonia’s largest island, reached via an artificial causeway from Muhu. Although Karja kirik | Karja Church (📷1) was closed, the churchyard contains three trapezoidal gravestones c. 13–14th C.—among the oldest surviving sculptural works in Estonian history and reflecting integration between heathen and Christian beliefs. We stopped briefly at Angla tuulikumägi | Angla Windmills for a photo (📷2) but drove onward to the meteorite crater at Kaali. This is the primary impact site from a strike (up to 80 tonnes/ 6m diameter) that fractured thick layers of Silurian dolomite thousands of years ago, which preserved the crater shape and its surrounding debris mound; it’s now partially filled with a lake (📷3). On to Kuressaare, Estonia’s westernmost town, where we noted a pair of nicely restored villas (📷4). These are former nobleman’s houses, built 1890 and 1908, located on a small island (technically a 17th C. ravelin, part of a fortress’s defence against artillery fire); one is private and the other a hotel. 🇪🇪 #europe #baltics #estonia #eesti 🚀 #travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org #campervan / #vanlife in the coolers of this beauty should be pretty attractive in the current climate. But they shouldn't be set to freezing. Yet.

New #Blog: Building A Bench For Our Campervan Author: Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/building-a-campervan-bench.html?utm_source=rss #campervan #diy #sofa #van #vehicles #wood

Still in Mid Wales, we elected to return a couple of places we’d enjoyed on previous travels in Wales. The first is the RSPB Gwenffrwd-Dinas Nature Reserve ~6km from Cilycwm, where a 3km circular trail runs riverside (📷1) & through an ordinarily damp alder & oak woodland (📷2), where lichens, mosses and liverworts collectively create a "Celtic rainforest" (a.k.a. Atlantic temperate rainforest). Although they hid from us, birds find sanctuary here too & on a previous visit in May we witnessed a remarkable carpet of bluebells. Twm Siôn Cati's cave is linked to the legend of a 16th C. Welsh outlaw. Through participating in an RSPB survey we gained insights into the interplay between #rewilding & active management. We then returned to Cardigan Bay at Mwnt, via a senic but mostly single-lane route. Mwnt Beach is lovely (📷3) & the adjacent headland offers views up & down (📷4) the coast; the landscape forms part of the Wales Coast Path & we watched bottlenose dolphin frolic offshore. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #uk #wales 🚀 #travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife 🥾 #nature

Before leaving North Wales & Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri | Eryri National Park we stopped for lunch at Harlech. The beach here on Cardigan Bay boasts several kilometres of sand that are notably wide at low tide (📷1) & are backed by dunes that constitute an important conservation area (📷2). We found the beach awash with Chrysaora hysoscella | the aptly-named compass jellyfish, apparently common in coastal coastal Atlantic & Mediterranean waters—although it hadn’t registered with us previously (📷3). Just inland from the beach is Castell Harlech | Harlech Castle, part of the UNESCO listing “Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd” (📷4). Like those at Conwy, Caernarfon & Beaumaris, the castle at Harlech was built for Edward I to conquer & hold Wales for the English Crown during the late 13th/ early 14th centuries—a feat he was unable to replicate in Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #uk #wales 🚀 #travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife 🥾 #nationalPark 🌍 #unesco

[2/2] After ~6km/ 2h on trail we reached Keld, the highest village in Swaledale. After 🍦 we began climbing Kisdon via Corpse Road when we spotted our flora small of the day: native flowering succulent Sedum acre | the goldmoss stonecrop (📷1). Elevated views from near the Kisdon summit offered a sense of landscape scale (📷2) & served as a stage for the ground-based & aerial antics of avian fauna of the day, Vanellus vanellus | the northern lapwing (📷3). We descended towards Muker (📷4) & returned to pitch: a 12km/ 4h loop. 🇬🇧 #uk #england #yorkshire 🚀 #travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife 🥾 #hiking #nature #nationalPark

Deep in the woods lies an abandoned VW Beetle Car Graveyard. Hundreds of Volkswagen Beetles and Bus Campervans are organised into rows and clusters, seemingly based on age and model. This fleet of rusting rainbow-coloured vehicles appears to represent every colour. Somewhere in the USA, some years ago. https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/vw-beetle-car-graveyard-usa/#USA #America #Abandoned #Photography #OldCars #VW #Volkswagen #Beetle #VWBeetle #Campervan