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Hello folks.
This morning my wife and I went for a long wandering (almost 13 km) together with 20 other people. Here in Sweden we have many ‘local geographic and folk unions’ (hembygdsförening in Swedish). This occation is an annual wandering that is held in May. Up and away early so you get the chance to hear the cuckoo. Then you know that spring really is here and summer isn’t far away. This day was excellent for this kind of hike, totally clear sky, ~12-13ºC in the morning and temerature rising up to 20ºC.
We started at 07.30 at Lunds by (the village of Lund), see Google maps .
Lunds by lies just 15 km south-west of Västervik on the south east coast of Sweden. We went around the lake Ekenässjön and ate a hot dog or two on a brake after 7-8 km.
Later on I took this photo. It is something that is called giants kettle, also known as giants cauldrons or potholes, and they are cavities or holes which appear to have been drilled in the surrounding rocks by eddying currents of water-bearing stones, gravel and other detrital matter.
The size varies from a few inches to several feet in depth and diameter. The commonest occurrence is in regions where glaciers exist or have existed; a famous locality is the GletscherGarten of Lucerne, where there are 32 giants kettles, the largest being 8 m (26 ft) wide and 9 m (30 ft) deep; they are also common in Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland and in the United States. It appears that water, produced by the thawing of the ice and snow, forms streams on the surface of the glacier, which, having gathered into their courses a certain amount of morainic debris, are finally cast down a crevasse as a swirling cascade or moulin.
There were two kettles and the largest (on the photo) was ~1 meter Ø and 1 meter deep. You can read more about it here in Wikipedia . Some facts, written above, are from the same site.

PP-work done:
Cropped
Resized
Sharpened one step
Framed

Regards
Per