May 17: trip to Utö – bus
Our return voyage to Utö, to install the design-build projects we had designed over the course of the semester, took just the same route as the one at the beginning of the semester. First, the bus rides to Pärnäs.
1823
Speedily emerging up the Olavinkatu ramp from Kamppi's subterranean bus depot.
1824
This gulf paralleling the street is for a rail line. The name of the street is, aptly, Rautatiekatu (Railroad Street).
1830
Heading northwest on Mannerheimintie, going by Parliament.
1832
And then past the National Museum.
1833
National Romantastic!
1846
Workin' on some tram lines.
1861
Out on the highway toward Turku, some strikingly dense formwork frames.
1894
Unusually, the highway passes through a few tunnels (well, at least this one, and quite possibly more).
1927
Fields still pre-growth.
1938
Early-season haybales sprinkled over a long diagonal view.
1946
A set of sails in the rotary at Parainen, familiar from the winter trip.
1961
A curious side trail paralleling the road.
1965
The landscape gradually got more and more watery, inlets interspersed with farms.
1973
The car ferry that we would need to board to get out onto the large islands and continue to Pärnäs, unloading its oncoming cargo.
1977
The view from the bus on the ferry.
1986
The opposite-direction ferry going by.
1987
We were able to get off the bus and walk around on deck; getting in the way of the view here is the front part of the deck over which the departing vehicles drive, tipped up to contain them.
1988
A variety of projections.
2002
The line of cars waiting to get on the ferry at the other side.
2007
The further west and out into the maritime zone we got, the greener the farm fields seemed to get, although subtly so. I wonder what those white sheets are protecting.
2008
Acres of sheets!
2014
Acres of gulls!
2028
A fishing party, lacking only Young Monet to paint them luminously.