[Paddlewise] Saaremaa & Hiiumaa /Estonia

From: <Niilus_at_aol.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:21:15 EDT
Ari,

I stayed in a guestroom at Vilsandi Park Headquarters and had my meals with 
the park supervisor and his wife at their nearby farmhouse.  Black bread, 
butter and smoked eel - the breakfast of champions!

I walked around and photographed the white lighthouse on the west end of 
Vilsandi. A former lighthouse keeper there was a well known ornithologist.  
He kept years of migration data and wrote a number of books and articles on 
Baltic birds.  The White-Tailed Eagle there is related to but has a slightly 
larger wingspan than the North American Bald Eagle.

Tony Niilus

Ari wrote:
>..Great places! Lotsa eagles, shallow waters, delicious
>bread and nice woollen shirts! Going to write a short
>story, if I do find time. There was this seal trying to
>climb to my deck...Anyone else been there?

>PS: The island of Vilsandi was one of the places we
>stayed there - is the white lighthouse at the most
>western end familiar to you?
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