On this beautiful morning we headed to Kotka town, to find a boat service to reach Orrengrund island.
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Orrengrund island is located on this map on the left side inside green form
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We boarded a nice boat named "Nestori" in Sapokka harbour.
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Kaunissaari kaivaten sua täällä muistelen - a song done by Juha Vainio about this beautiful island "Kaunissaari"

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Small lighthouse found in the harbour of Kaunissaari island
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​Baltic Herrings a delicious freshly smoked. This is the oven taht is used to smoke the fish.
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Smoke oven from inside. The herrings are placed into steel rods through their heads, so that the dripping grease drops down.
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 Before you place the herring into the rods, you need to remove the inner guts of them.
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 ​Arriving to Orrengrund island
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Another type of smoke oven.
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Orrengrund island's old lighthouse which is actually not a lighthouse, only so called "pooki" - a tower that can be seen from the sea.
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On the cliffs of Orrengrund can be found wild grass-onion flowers​.
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 Climbing up inside the Orrengrund tower
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Looking out from the windows 
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Old military constructions
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 At orrengrund cliffs 
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Dry skin of a snake (probably a grass snake, natrix natrix)
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 All good things end someday... so we had to start going back to Kotka harbour
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 A memorial stone for one of the best songwriters in Finland: Mr Juhani "Junnu" Vainio spent part of his life in Kotka area and wrote songs that we all remember. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQYIff6o12o