Those rock fields are called "pirunpelto" in Finnish. It can be translated as devil's field (word field in agricultural meaning). I can just imagine how ancient people have been thinking that there must be something magic with that kind of places.
@@oh2mp Wow that's so interesting. Yes it would of been such a sight back in the day, even now it is fascinating to see and we where able to Google it beforehand.
40k islands, + some thousand inland & a bit under 200k lakes. From a map the Center Finland looks nearly like a archipelago. You traveleld the coast: that's like a 'Viking' tour of Finland: areas raided or conquered by them. Wish you had time to go inland: that lake district is the most typical Finland - like the quintessential postcard area you choose for your postcards. Well, the south coast is a bit of a mix of the west coast plains, and the inland lake district. And Lapland north of the Baltic Sea is like another kind of land, different type of vegetation. And there are 2 mountains in the north :) Which could be called the fourth biome in Finland, or just part of the rugged Lapland. Well, we could call the swamps the fifth biome.
City beaches by the seashore have showers, but shampooing there takes some nerves - in front of everyone. So you still need your swimming suit - but at least you'll get your hair washed :)
1:56 Hey, it's Old Rauma. That is a familiar place for me, some of my relatives live there. 8:00 "Where are we driving?" But you are on the driver's seat...!!! ;)
That 'rockyard' must be a result of the ice age. When the ice sheet withdrew northwards for the warming weather, there were some stops in the withdrawal, and then then stones carried in the ice dropped in the same place. For the same reason, there's a ridge that goes from Hanko peninsula (southeast of Turku) first northeast, then slowly curves to more easterly direction, until going roughly parallel to the South coast until the Russian border and a bit beyond. That ridge formed when a lot of landmass fell from the melting ice sheet almost to the same spot. It was mostly gravel, including stones - even massive boulders turned quite round, by rolling in the bottom of the ice. That ridge has also many very round holes, because there were sometimes round blocks of ice trapped inside the landmass, and they melted later. Like ice under sand is a bit protected from the sun.
