You can also read
more at the Naturvardsverket's (The Swedish authority for nature and
wildlife protection) web site: http://www.allemansratten.se/templates/firstPage.asp?id=2058
Innocent passage
You can walk in
the forest, on an island or other non-cultivated land, but not on
cultivated land or someones garden. You can travel on all lakes and
the open sea, you can swim in the water unless the opposite is clearly
stated.
Wild berries
You can pick wild berries, but not cultivated crops, cultivated fruit
or protected species.
Camp fires
Fires are
allowed in principle, but you must be very careful. You are always
fully responsible for any damage caused by a fire you have
started. Consider that: Fully responsible.
You can use driftwood, dead fallen trees and dead branches on the
ground as fire wood. You must not harm standing trees in any way.
During summer draughts there is often a general fire ban. See information
posted at our station.
If there
is no fire ban and the conditions are right, use existing fire rings
or make your fire on the beach, below the high water line. Never make
fires on solid rock or on grass.
Camping
You
can camp even on privately owned land, if it is not a house yard or
cultivated land. This applies to single persons or normal family groups.
Groups larger than a normal family must have the landowner's permisson.
You must
keep out of sight from the landowner's house. You must not block paths/roads
used by the landowner, or in any other way cause disturbance or unconviences.
Grass needs to
recover after being compressed by a tent. Avoid spots where a tent
stood the previous night. Camp as far away from other campers as possible.
Toilets
Use public toilets (f.ex. in the guest harbours) when possible. Use
the dry closets you find on many islands (ask us!). If there is no
such facility at hand, dig catholes or cover your fecals with rocks.
Consider the Foot Rule: Another person should be able to put
his/her foot where you just dug a hole, without even noticing. To
avoid bad odours at frequently used sites, urinate directly into the
sea or below the high water line.
Garbage
Bring back what you brought out! Sort your garbage and leave it at
the Recycling Stations, for example at Stockens Camping.
Wild life reservates
Respect the rules in protected areas. N.B. there are bird and seal
reservates, which you are not allowed to visit at all during specified
seasons (some the entire year), and that this ban include the nearest
surrounding waters.
Birds and seals
Watch their behaviour. If they seem aggressive, you are too close.
Stay clear of birds with young chicks, make a distinct detour so they
can see you intentions. Some birds, for example swans, get very nervous
if you do not leave them a free escape upwind. If you scare a nesting
bird, leave the site immediately, so the bird can return to nest the
eggs.
Seals need their hours in the sun, stay well clear and do not paddle
straight towards them, avoid sudden moves and loud noice. The harbour
seals (the kind we have here) get their pups during the summer, then
be even more careful.
N.B. you must show the animals this consideration even outside their
reservates.
