I wanted to close my blog about my trip to Vässarö with a list off all the trees, plants and animals I determined. They are bound to be a lot more. I did however focus on the trees and plants I could use. I’m still a beginner so it took me a long time to look things up in my books and dubblecheck to be sure.

I would still like to

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I'm back home now, for about 36 hours.

I woke up at six 'o clock un thursday to make it for the first ferry to the Swedish main island (Never tell the Swedish they are part of the "Continent" ... same reaction as the British ... hehe)

Since I was going back to civilisation I decided shower, shave and put on some relatively clean clothes. I had kinda forgotten how cold the "hot showers" were on Vässarö.

I also had breakfast in the dining

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N 60° 16' 0'' E 18° 42' 0''
60.26667 / 18.7

Yesterday at 15h I started of for my expedition to the small island of Ljusklubben north of the main island of Vässarö. I had a two person canoe at my diposal.

Ljusklubben is only about one kilometer long and half a kilometer wide. It's uninhabited.

The goal of my expedition was to scout the island for next year. Next year I want to have a small bushcraft camp with

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I know it's a bit of a cliche, but isn't this the best feeling in the world? You can't help but learn at bushmoots, and my head is still spinning with information. I couldn't wait to get into the woods this weekend to put some new found knowledge into practice.

I know it's been said before, but a huge thanks to everyone who ran the workshops

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Wow what a fantastic day. Our town is running a festival of summer through a few local sporting venues, involving all sorts of stuff - birdwatching, archery, wlaks etc. anyway Troglet2 and I signed up for a canoe expedition. The group of about 20, met up at tenish and was given a safety brief etc and kitted out for the day on the Clywedog Reservoir. We paddled into the prevailing wind for about an hour and a half before beaching up and lighting a barbeque. We were itching to get amongst the fire

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Hi All,

Thought I'd throw this up for information. This is a list of my sharp stuff, nothing seriously expensive (well yet...) but most of it is pretty serviceable.

Starting at bottom left;

Frosts Mora Clipper - Amazingly good knife for under a tenner. The handle is good, grippier and more comfortable than the

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I'm really starting to like my camp now. I'm getting used to crawl out of my hammock, go out to collect firewood, start a fire, cook porridge and make coffee each morning. The last two days the weather was really fine so after I did the dishes I could take a dip in the sea to get clean(er). Today I also experimented with birch leaf soap. It's a real tender soap and you smell rather nice afterwords. It's also real easy to make. You can watch my vlog to see how I did it: youtube

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Yesterday after lunch I collected a block at the eastern windshelter where I originally started off. They were the only ones I knew the be found on the island. I was pretty heavy carrying it to the other side of the island so I started kicking it like it was a football. I then decided that I would probably make my spoon at Program anyhow. It was ok then to leave my block there.

The first birch I set of to chop turned out to be rotten inside. I couldn't use it for carving. A lot of effort

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In fact it was larruping down all day, forecast from the BCUK link was Moderate/Heavy/Heavy/Torrential/Moderate! Plan was to go out for a walk or a cycle but I just wasn't in the mood for a soaking, somedays it makes no difference, others, I can't be bothered. Must be getting soft!! Also, I like taking my camera with me but it would have had to stay in the bag.

She who must be obeyed was planning on cooking up a special meal tonight to she didn't mind if I disappeared into the garden for the day. I popped the garage door up, hung a tarp to give me some more dry space and pulled up a chair. I had a couple of bushcraft

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..... I last put some stuff up here.

The Summer Moot was another outstanding success, and I was more that a little pleased to be able to pay a tiny bit back by co-hosting the Rabbit Preperation session. Buckshot Mark reminded me yet again that we occupy an argueably priveledged position, in that we are able to see the entire food chain from field to table. Whereas a lot of folk have no experience of the lead-up that exists before the plastic wrapped packages that appear on the shelves of

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