Report from a very popular island, today produced by Hans:

A nice morning again and a nice summer day. Fit for a full days work allready at 7 AM.


The fishing boats stayed overnight.

Two small Swedish fishing boats left after seven, they anchored late yesterday south of Märket island.

After brekfast we made some cleaning works. About 10 AM we saw a two masted sailingship coming from south. No wind so they was using motor.

At the same time a small boat arrived to the Northern side. One man from Singö in Sweden was here to anchor some marking buoys on shipwrecks on the Northern side. Diwers from Sweden are coming Saturday and Sunday for diving and maybe they will have coffee and information about Märket.


A nice place to park!

I went out to the sailing ship vith our small boat and piloted them to the Northern side. Her name is Albanus (from Mariehamn) and she was on a four day cruise in the archipelago with young people from Diabetes sociyty.


The seal and and the passangers of Albanus met.

They had lunch onbord and after that they visited the lighthouse 10 persons. Onboard were 18 passangers including crew. Bajen Lindholm was captain. They left about 2 PM when Bengt Granberg arrived with a three person family from Nagu. They have their sailingboat in Kärringsund Eckerö. After 4 PM we had our lunch.


Thousands of insects fly over Märket as can be seen in the photo.

We are now waiting for next visitors. All visitors have been able to see seals and even take photos as You can see from the Albanus photo.

The work in the kitchen have rested today, ventilation is working and there are now two windows open to the west. As the carpets are removed it will dry out very fast. The cellar is still wet and difficult to ventilate.

Regards from two busy lighthouse keepers