Evening swim, Friday August 1st 2003

	1. 7:30 pm, after a hot day it's time for a little evening swim (not for Viljami though; he's still recovering from his operation).
2. The sun is already low, but it's still quite warm and the boys can't wait to get there.
	3. Down at the parkinglot the boys start wondering where I went. Just wanted to take a pic. The island in the background is Helsinki Zoo. In clear nights you can hear the big cats roaring there.
4. This place is for washing carpets and rugs, but people also go swimming from there. These things can be found on several spots around the Helsinki area.
	5. Joel jumps right in and Viljami takes his place on a washing table. Aah, life is so sweet...!
6. This boy is a regular water beast. If it were possible he'd be swimming 24/7/52...
	7. Joel needs to get his breath back for a while, after a long swimming and diving session. Viljami is already getting bored and he'd like to get going.
8. This boat is exactly the same type we used to have when I was young. Only, we took the mast off. It was too short to be effective -- it was only in the way. Oh, how much I'd like to have a boat...
	9. This is the view to the northern (ugly) parts of downtown Helsinki. It's almost 9 pm already.
10. We walk back home along the shoreline. There's a jungle gym on our way and Viljami wants to play for a moment.
	11. The whole end of our island is park with some really nice spots. It's still quite light at 9 pm.
12. A view to our house from the seaside park.
	13. Weed, sea and the seafortress Suomenlinna.
14. The park just in front of our house. The minimalism of it pleases my restless mind. I love to sit on a bench or on those round stones, watch the sea, empty my mind -- and be in peace with the universe...
	15. I'm concentrating on the photographing when I suddenly hear a familiar voice behind me. Teemu has come to see what's keeping us, because our 'short' evening swim has taken quite a long time.
16. Viljami wants me to take a pic of him and the roses. "Why not", I think. Besides, there's the view I so often sit and look at. Well, normally without the stiff lens bug, though...
	Here you can see the whole Katajanokka and our route. The boats on the right are ice-breakers. They spend their summer vacation here with us, but the long icy winter months they're on duty all around the Baltic sea. The castle-like yellow building is our Foreign Ministry. Teemu's father works there.