Sweden’s coastline is best known for its skerries, archipelagos of small rocky islets. But in the south, the coast features beautiful white sand beaches.
Madrone’s first landfall in Sweden is the town of Skanor. Located nearly on the southwest corner of the country, Skanor became an important port for the flourishing herring fishing trade in the Middle Ages. Some ruins of the castle from the early 1200s still exist near the old town.
But today Skanor is largely a holiday destination, and judging by the array of beautiful modern Scandinavian houses lining the marshy wetlands between town and the beach it’s a prosperous one.
Madrone has now made it from the Baltic into the south of the Oresund, the sound that separates Sweden from Denmark. With easterly winds, we anchor just off the beach – the long, low light of the Scandinavian summer twilight imparts a gentle glow to the sand, while in the other direction the lights of Copenhagen twinkle in the distance.
