islands

[haluta]

is any body know how fins go islands when the sea is freeze up?

[Hank W.]

with a ship, if its on a shipping lane with icebreakers helping. or then if its some small rock with no ship lanes in between you can go on foot, ski, skate, take a snowmobile, and even drive with car if theres an ice road...
http://www.kolumbus.fi/matti.gronroos/G ... /Talvi.htm

I mean thats Helsinki harbor, and that Viking line goes to Åland islands
http://www.ylitalot.net/img.cgi?fname=p ... 6672_1.jpg
And the ice is not that "solid", so the Suomenlinna ferry operates

[haluta]

waw drive with car soundsgood thanks

[finni]

but you dont have any lıcense...

[Mark I.]

And the ice is not that "solid", so the Suomenlinna ferry operates

Well, thanks to unusually cold winter, the sea ice around Helsinki is rock solid right now, one could drive trains and trucks on it. But ice brakes keep routes open to boats, vessels and ferries, which limits the ice area one can, for example, walk on. If there were no boat trafficking through out winter, one could go anywhere on sea ice. (Reminds me of that occation in history, when Russians did a total surprice attack to Helsinki by riding horses from Estonia over the frozen Gulf of Finland after unusually cold weather.)

For people living in archipelago, moving to mainland and back can be tricky at times when ice is just strong enough to prevent going on boats, but too weak to walk on. There are (state subsidised) ferries trafficking on regular scedules around archipelago, but if/when sea ice gets strong enough, the habitants want those ferries to stop trafficking, so that they can move around archipelago, say with snow mobiles. Many times those locals have arguments going on around this time of year, about *not* to start ferry trafficking when they still can move on ice without limitations.

(For example, I was once on first ferry of that year in Taalintehdas, the ferry stopped, and I was wondering why - there seemd to be no reason. Suddenly I saw a man running from a small island on ice towards the ferry with a long pole in his hands (ice was anything but thick anymore), and he threw a bottle to the ferry. Now, I was curious. My friend told me that the man was a local guy, who gave a bottle to the skipper of the ferry, because he had delayed the ferry's first ice braking trip to the archipelago.)