Ryssmasterna - Near Dyvik, Sweden
Lighthouse category: beacon/sector Position: 59°31'54.02"N : 18°32'51.82"E Status: active Date: not known Designer: not known Tower height: 20 feet Construction: round concrete tower with lantern and gallery Colour scheme: tower white, lantern white with single horizontal red band Focal plane height: 26 feet Characteristics: white, red and green sectors, single flash every three seconds Foghorn: none Google map view: google map link |
This light is situated on a tiny, rocky islet immediately to the south of the main shipping channel about one and a half miles east of Dyvik. I was extremely lucky to get the first photo just as a large shower was passing to the south of us and producing a spectacular rainbow. The rather strange lighting effect in the shot above that appears like a spotlight shining on the lighthouse seem, as far as I can recollect, to have been produced by a shaft of sunlight that was actually shining through a gap in Queen Victoria's superstructure.
The image below gives a wider view of the islet and also shows more clearly the large number of black birds perched in the trees. The birds, as far as I can determine from the Internet are ravens. The trees look dead which is strange as there were no other dead trees that I saw between here and Stockholm, and I just wonder if their condition has something to do with the large number of birds roosting here.