Saturday, October 1, 2011

Shores and islands

The sun is rising over the runways of Roissy CDG (Paris) airport while my Arlanda (Stockholm)-bound plane takes off.
See which shores and islands I could see during this morning flight!
NB - Remember, you are invited to click on the images!

Roissy CDG - Boarding an Air France A319 (flight AF1762).

Jade Bight at ebb tide.

A KLM Boeing 747

Mouth of the Elbe

Western entrance of the Kiel canal, near the mouth of the Elbe (by the North Sea)...

... and eastern entrance, deep in the Bay of Kiel (Baltic Sea)

Fehmarn Sound Bridge

Fehmarn

Fehmarn Belt (Denmark left, Germany to the right)

Storstrøm strait and its bridges: Storstrømsbroen (rail and road bridge, 1937) and Farøbroerne (motorway bridges, 1985).

Visible only from high up in the air: Sweden (Scania, left), Denmark (Zealand, bottom) and Germany (Rügen, top right) on the same picture!

Copenhagen and the Øresund bridge.

Gåsfjärden and islands by the Småland coast, south of Västervik. Where does the sea end and where does the sky begin?

Fårö (left) and Gotland

Muskö and Utö, southern Stockholm archipelago. The mysterious faraway island is probably Gotska Sandön.

Stockholm, as seen from west

Drottningholm Palace

Upplands Väsby

Stora Wäsby Castle. The driveway is cut off by the railway linking Stockholm and Uppsala.