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05.00 the alarm-clock screamed out it's joy of waking up three deadly tired zombies! What was going on? Well, we have planned to go and watch these:  Surprisingly it was Mikael who stepped up first, then me, and last (cheered on) Manuel, with a huge yawn. We packed the food we had prepared last night, the cameras, batteries and all that was prepared and went to the car. Manuel jumped in, and fell asleep immediately again. An hour later we were watching these beautiful crane-birds wishing we had bigger lenses to our cameras. the place is called Pulken and is very close to the summer-resorts Åhus and Yngsjö. We have two zoom-lenses. We used both of them in heavy rain last summer and one of them became wet also inside. Now we thought it would be OK, so I tested it, but it turned out that is was NOT....it leaves a blurry effect all over the picture, or if lucky - at the very edges. I managed to keep 10% of my pictures. 
 We took Manuel for a short walk and let him stay in the car after that. Next stop was Åsums ängar to see if we could get closer to the birds. Once there, I was so tired I fell asleep for a while in the car while Mikael checked out the place. Then we decided to go to a place called Gropahålet, a beach with wonderful dunes. In the summer it is used for two purposes; to the left - nude bathing, to the right; dog-bathing. Manuel ran around like a crazy puppy digging in the sand, checking out the waves - just having a blast! 
 The next two pictures show how it can be when I am "slightly too slow" with the camera. Focus gets all on his behind at the first one, and part of him is "outside the picture - the second one as he jumped the parking-fence.  
OK, what's next? We headed towards Degerberga and Forsakar. Forsakar is a beautiful little place with a creek and mini waterfalls in the middle of a small beech forest on top of Linderödsåsen.
 First stop at the bottom of Forsakar. There was a small farm with animals like ducks, goats, emus, Shetland-ponies, and... and...miniature pigs! These were really interesting for Manuel. He could scent something alike wild bore, but still not. It was good training.
Then we took the car up to the top and hiked a bit there. By now I was starting to get really tired. Manuel has no problem walking on bridges where you can see the water beneath. It is very interesting watching his technique since he always takes it slowly and methodical doing this kind of stuff (unlike i.e. Kumi who is more of "let's get it over with, let's go fast"). Have a look at his spread toes.  
 We drove to Brösarps backar, and there we stopped for a lunch break with hot-dogs and home-made potato-salad.Of course we had brought lunch for Manuel as well. By now we were really really tired, all three of us.  OK, we headed home, via Kivik and Simrishamn. I suggested ice-cream at the Simrishamn harbour, and guess what? Mikael declined, he was too full!  Anyhow, we realised that Manuel would need to lift his leg yet another time before the evening walk, so we drove via Bokskogen, where Mikael took Manuel for a very short one. Manuel actually did not want to leave the car  . Finally at home, all three of us collapsed wherever we "landed" and had a very quiet evening. /Charlotte
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