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February 10: Utö – Stenhuset

A more mixed weather day.

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Here we go again.

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Another baroque sunrise, rather more ominous than yesterday's.

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Especially with this scud. It was moving fast.

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A wing of the main hotel, plus the tall radio towers just beyond it.

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The waters west of the hotel with a couple kinds of surface textures.

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Looks a little chilly.

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A zoom of the lighthouse light.

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We visited Stenhuset on this day, and its contents were quite interesting. I'm only going to show a couple of things, though. Such as this curious off-axis hatch in the floor.

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Here's the village in 1900, looking east. Stenhuset is the white-walled building in the lower right.

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Original drawings of Stenhuset.

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The front side of Stenhuset, facing uphill toward the lighthouse.