Sunday, August 29, 2010

Nordic Deep, or prejudices on a scale of Sweden

Ok, freediving trip to Sweden, so you kinda expect green above and below the surface

salahalfunder

and about equal amounts of water on both sides

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and perfect looking blonde people

ninna

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but the strange thing is that -though we did have the type of sky you half expect Odin and Thor to appear in, throwing farming equipment at each other-

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most of the time, the weather was actually lovely and we had skies that were postcard sweet

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that's also the place where the competition boat moores

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the other pier, near the camp site, had been roughed up a little by the elements

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actually, they both had been

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the little boat worked, though

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and i worked as a safety diver, but completely fucked up as a competition diver

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(announced dive: 50 no fins. Realized dive: 33, free immersion on the way back. No clue how to equalize. Photo by Maria Hovden)

the line was clean and straight

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the competitors and safetydiver not always

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Maria, Saint of Frisbees was with us

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sending more than a few into fits of higher frisbewareness

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prayertovolleyball

even the bed got in on the action

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but who needs beds?

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i'm telling you, these Swedes get in some pretty cheeky situations

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Weine even managed to catch the frisbee between his

weineandfrisbee

Miha juggled

mihajuggling

Peter tried

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Ola became a Japanese sperm (with plans of world domination)

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and i slept with Barbie

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So even though it rained once

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or twice

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with other forms of splashing as well

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and there were about a million and a half of these beautiful but mean fuckers

jellyfish

it was actually sunny most of the time

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The people were sunny too -even the non-blondes

elena

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The kids were up to the usual

thekids

And while Sebastian proposed to Fanny with an oximeter, he was looking at me while doing so

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Seb, by the way, doesn't quite live in the middle of nowhere -but you can see the road towards it from his house

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Best parts, though, were the effervescent and horny Peter B

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and of course the chicks

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who knew sparrows had such cute butts?

2 comments:

SeBiArt said...

that is the best blog post EVER! I captions (story) was great and the photos were perfectly selected; and there are so many excellent images Daan - uh, I really enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing.

Kars said...

I agree, cool photo's bringing a colourful story!

Too bad I couldn't be there :(