Ekstakusten, Naturreservat
- Nature reserve
- County: Gotlands län
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Description
In the fall, when the wind blows and high waves crash on the shore, the Oak Coast can feel inhospitable. But on a balmy summer evening, as the sun sinks behind the Karlsöarna islands, you realize that you have Gotland's most amazing view in front of you.
The reserve covers an approximately four-kilometer section of the Oak Coast, stretching from Tomsarve Mill and Skansudd south to Hammarudd. The entire stretch of coast is characterized by beautifully formed embankments of gravel and stone.
The coastal part of the reserve is poor in vegetation. The only things that grow here are drought-resistant grasses and herbs such as sheep's fescue, creeping thyme, yellow poppy, yellow buttercup, cat's foot, creeping thistle, carpet thistle and blue alder, as well as lichens and mosses. In sandier areas, sand reed, sand lettuce, beach vetch, saltwort and marsh violet occur. Immediately north of Kronvall's fishing village there is a small stand of the protected plant bog myrtle.
Further in from the sea, there is a low-growing beach forest, where the outermost pine and spruce trees are heavily chastened by wind and salt spray and seem to crawl along the ground.
In the central part of the reserve is Kronvall, a fishing village that in earlier times was much larger than it is today. According to legend, it was at Kronvall that the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag and his army landed on 22 July 1361. Skansudd is named after the redoubt located here. The defense facility, which was built in 1712-1713, consists of an approximately 130 meter long, 4-6 meter wide and 1-1.5 meter high rampart of gravel and sand.
Activities And Facilities
- Nature reserve
Facts
Year of protection: 1967 (extended in 2018)
Parish: Eksta
Characteristics: Stone beach and windswept pine forest
Area: 133 hectares
Landowners: Private
Administrator: County Administrative Board of Gotland
Type of protection: Nature reserve
Regulations
For everyone's well-being and to maintain the reserve's natural and cultural values, it is important that all visitors show consideration. In addition to the right of public access, it is not allowed to:
- drive a motorized vehicle on land outside the road marked with a solid black line on the map,
- park motorized vehicles and caravans, other than in specially arranged parking spaces as shown on the map,
- park for more than 24 hours at a time
- camping for more than 24 hours at a time
- drilling, hacking, blasting or carving in stone
- moving or removing boulders, rocks or fossils, for example by building stone towers
- breaking branches, felling trees or otherwise damaging living or dead standing fallen trees and shrubs, stumps, bark, branches or brushwood
- light a fire other than in a specially prepared fireplace; however, a barbecue or field kitchen may be used
- drive jet skis, water scooters or similar craft, except for passage through the reserve at the shortest possible distance from the port.
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Länsstyrelsen i Gotlands läns naturvårdsförvaltning
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