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Fotograf: Daniel Cluer
Photo: Daniel Cluer
Blankaviken, Naturreservat
- Nature reserve
- County: Kalmar län och Öland
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Description
Blankaviken is a popular bathing area, but the nature reserve also has flower-rich wooded pastures and lush deciduous forests. Up on the high cliffs you can look out over Gåsfjärden.
Popular bathing place
The Blankaviken nature reserve was established as early as 1973 to ensure public access to a valuable bathing and hiking area. The narrow bay is connected to Gåsfjärden. This mighty bay is almost completely closed off to the east by large islands. Contact with the Baltic Sea is therefore limited and thus the availability of salt water. So don't be surprised if the water doesn't taste salty when you take a bath, even if you bathe in the sea!
The nature of Blankaviken
The shores of Blankaviken are lined with dense reed belts, which open up at the bathing area. To the north is a wooded pasture with fine flora. If you climb to the heights, you have a view of the surroundings of Blankaviken. Inland, forests spread out, where many of the old trees bear traces of pollarding. These trees are characterized by their candelabra-like branching, where the branches originate from a single point on the tree's trunk. Pollarding was carried out by local farmers who pruned the trees to collect twigs and leaves to feed their cattle in winter.
Fagra flowers
The reserve's pastures are home to broadleaf trees such as oak, lime, ash and maple, as well as various shrubs such as juniper, blackthorn, rosehip and hazel. Cat's-foot, cowslip and bluebell are some examples of the plants you can see. The unusual orchid Adam and Eve also grows here. It blooms in May-June and comes in two different colors, one white-flowered and one red-flowered.
Activities And Facilities
- Nature reserve
Facts
Year of decision: 1973
Area: 23 hectares
Municipality: Västervik
Landowner: Västervik municipality
Trustees: Västervik municipality in consultation with Kalmar County Administrative Board
Directions
At Blankaholm S of Västervik. From E22, take the exit towards Blankaholm. In Blankaholm, follow signs for the bathing area. In the area there is both a bathing area and a campsite, which is not part of the nature reserve.
Regulations
In the nature reserve you are not allowed:
- Damage or remove fixed natural objects or surface formations.
- Damage or remove growing trees, bushes or plants.
- You may not pick flowers.
- Fishing.
- Bring dogs or other animals that are not on a leash.
- Camp, set up a caravan or similar in a place other than in designated parking spaces.
- Make a fire.
- Driving a boat or other craft at a speed greater than 5 knots.
- Drive a motorized vehicle, bicycle or other means of transport outside designated roads or paths.
- Park in a place other than in designated parking lots.
- Disturbing the environment with loud noises such as music, video or radio.
Full regulations
C. Regulations according to Chapter 7, Section 30 of the Environmental Code on the right to travel and stay in the reserve and on order in general
It is forbidden to
- damage or remove fixed natural objects or surface formations
- damage or remove trees, bushes or plants, including flower picking
- fishing
- bring an unleashed dog or other domestic animal
- camping or pitching a caravan other than in designated areas
- light a fire
- drive a boat or other craft at a speed exceeding 5 knots
- ride a bicycle, motorized vehicle or other means of transport other than on designated roads
- park other than in designated places;
- use a radio, gramophone, tape recorder or the like in a disruptive manner.
Contact
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Per Markus Jönsson
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