On our way to a family celebration in central Poland (85th birthday of my grandpa!) we had a stop in the Blue Springs nature reserve and the nearby Museum of Pilica river.
Tag: natural reserves
We were a little bit disappointed with Woliński Park Narodowy, but we only visited it as walking tourists. Seeing from the water must be another story… Anyway, the parkings next to the trails in the National Park were pretty busy so finding a place required patience. The trails (Kawcza Góra and Jezioro Turkusowe) as such are nice but the number of view points is very limited. So if you enjoy walking in the forest, you will like it, but do not expect seeing much more than that.
After spending a night at a channel nearby the crooked forest in Gryfino, we went there for a short walk. Indeed it is very interesting to see so many trees bent in a similar manner. Unfortunately it is unclear how and why these distortions were made. They are manmade for sure and the rest is unknown.
After this short visit we moved forward North, to the Dąbie lake, looking for a nice peaceful beach with clear water to swim and cool down a bit (34°C on that day).
In Bystra and Lubczyna the beach was clean and pretty empty, but the water reminded of a green soup.
And so we moved more to the North, to Szczecin Lagoon, to find a very peaceful beach few kilometres after Stępnica, in Czarnocin.
The water was equally green in there, but the views and the emptiness made us stay there for the night 🙂
A lovely place to celebrate the 14th anniversary of us together, with a bottle of wine bought in the winyeard visited few days before from … plastic glasses made for kids by a well known Swidish company 🙂
Anyway, it was served in a perfect temperature 😀
Cycling on a heavy rental bike (OKSiR in Łęknica, they provide child seats and helmets for free and have towed troilers for kids as well), with a child seat and 16+kg of a child was not an easy task, especially in 26C… But fortunately the good company and beautiful nature (anthropogenic) compensated the heavy duty 😉 and the day was beautiful!
Thank you Mirek and Asia for brining us there!
On our way to the North of Poland I wanted to visit a special place, nearby a village called Ateny (Athens :-), where I spent several summer holidays camping in a tent with my parents when I was small. Very small…
Unfortunately the place has changed and my memories are very faded so the landscape did not ring any bell…
Anyway, the area still looks very attractive for spending summer there.
Afterwards we had several stops at viewpoint on Wigierski National Park. This natural reserve must be gorgeous when seen from the water level.
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