Category: World vs. Life
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Hiva Oa: middle of Pacific Ocean
this is my FORWARD MEMORY
(thank you, Christian, for coining that word)
Five remote islands I have never visited and will visit …tomorrow
(thank you, Rolf, for the book)
I will fill this post’s space with POST MEMORIES with time. If higher forces in the air allow me. 4 flights one way, 5 flights return!
Merry Christmas.
ongoing ISLAND MEMORIES…
So I’ve landed safely on the 11 December.
2 days after Hiva Oa, we night-sailed to another island, Ua Huka, where a special Marquesas Festival happens every 2. year. All the 6 Marquesas Islands gather, speak, food-celebrate and dance.
The men were bringing and “blessing” the food. That’s how the traditional way of cooking was in Marquesas: they dig a pit in the ground, set the hole on fire, cover with stones, put food on stones (like fire-baked bananas or wild pig), cover food tight with leaves and wait for (half) a day for it to cook.
It tasted intense! Within 1,5 hour I experienced more new tastes on my lips than for the entire last year:
wild pig with garlic coco milk
taro
sweet red grapefruit
manioka
raw tuna straight from the ocean
🐗 in salt-water
salted horse meat (they have wild 🐎 on the island)
fermented 🥥 paste
raw 🦀 (has been served and didn’t know how to eat it. One local woman with looong nails showed me how to squeeze and suck the meat out of hard shell)
The End of England: Isles of Scilly
Islands.
Islanders.
Surrounded by water 
All around, the four sides of the sea melt and form a deep 360° boundary, encapsulation.
It’s Indian Summer’25 and I am on Tresco Island. I am preparing to visually write about ISLES OF SCILLY.
TIDES
LABIRYNTS
SCANDINAVIA ❤💙❤BRITAIN
Welcome to my ISLANDS blog that will be growing with time.
I went to visit Abbey Gardens on Tresco Island with a boat. I was surprised by the feeling, the atmosphere and what it did to me. I haven’t felt so happy in a place since I visited Vancouver Island 20 years ago!
I met a local man here, too, Julian*, who is a biologist, working with archeologists and volunteers on the Isles. His history is very uniqie as he moved from Orkney Islands to Scilly some years ago
Nothing is more precious than personal stories told over a beer.
The next day I visited St. Agnes Island where a 300 years’ old labirynth exists and has lots to do with Vikings. Julian has sent me there.
I walked around the island quite blindly without a map or phone and there was no guarantees I find the LABIRYNTH.
But I did!
Isles of Scilly won my heart and as much as I almost never come back to the same travelling destination, I will come back to Tresco and Agnes.
*Julian Branscombe, thank you!
artificial Islands of Denmark: Ungdomsøen and Flakfortet
Islands.
Islanders.
Surrounded by water
All around, the four sides of the sea melt and form a deep 360° boundary, encapsulation.
Welcome to my ISLANDS blog that will be growing with time.
Here is my first, when I officially started the project “I am drawned to islands” on summer’24 when sailing and staying on Danish Ungdomsøen outside Copenhagen.
Islands make one or me only feel both safe and stuck without supplies if one (me only?) has not brought enough of…
FOOD !
{ or wait, give it a thought, what was it that one would bring to a semi-deserted island?
if one thing only can be brought? }
Cause ships coming and going from island are graceful and bring resources.
Bjork has written an anchor song 
– piosenka kotwica (pl.)
which sounds like that
We just spent a weekend on Danish Ungdomsøen (Youths’ Island) on the occassion of Peace Camp.
Our ship was gracious too, a Cornish crabber from 1971 with Gavin as captain.
video
the peace manifestation in the harbour was artistically initiated by Pipaluk (video by Magnus).
Ungdomsøen ( previously called Middelgrundsfort ) is the biggest of three islands seen from the north end of Copenhagen Channel – artificially built for protecting the land from seaside war attacks. (photo and article from ‘Båd’ magasin’18)
The second of the 3 – Flakfortet – I had sailed 
to many years ago on my own boat. Without knowing any of its history. We only talked to its islanders. People living on and running the island that once was military’s, then abandonded, then went into private hands and opened for sailors visiting. Then temporarily closed because of visitors bringing potential damage to its historical heritage.
Interesting people…
Trekroner, the third island, we would sail to and practice harbour maneuvers for Dueligheds Bevis exam.
Yes.
And all those words above to give a sensation of peculiarities of Island as space and beautiful, strange culture.
And because I feel there’s a vibe in Islands. And in places once upon a time abandoned by military.
Which shift then into another shape.