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You really need another couple of coffee's to take in that stunning view!
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very nice Thumbs Up
 and theeeeennn......???  
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Did someone say coffee stop?



This time with slightly burnt crumpets. Embarassed

   
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Beautiful view.
  
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Tucked up in the Scandic in Skelleftea, free night due to points accumulated. Mr. Green



Dinner digesting nicely, luckily thereā€™s a Max just across the road. Whistle



Will post pics in blocks, poor camera was working its socks off today. Thumbs Up
   
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Max is one of the best things in Sweden. Thumbs Up
  
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View from the outermost gun position, towards where I camped. This looks like a smaller gun than the other two positions. These were guns originally destined for a battleship that wasn't built, one was lost with the ship transporting it.



Postie might get shot at delivering there!! Shocked



Mount for the gun, or maybe a sighting rig??



Inside the cupola in the pic way above



General pics inside the bunker, done by torch. At last I have a reason to carry a torch to the Arctic in mid summer!! Laughing







The first of the 3 big gun mounts









The most intact bunker that is now a museum





Ammunition ā€œtrainā€ cart, these were piggin big shells



I thought this was a light but itā€™s opaque where a lens would be so some kind of radar?



The last gun position before I headed off.





Looks like some kind of exhaust, generator site?



Structure built into the hillside




And the last block. I thought this was an exhaust again but itā€™s solid iron.




Pipe work inside



And remains of a defensive cupola, with strakes for barbed wire.
 

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Looks like a searchlight to me. I would imagine that is the parabolic dish - so the bottom - from where the light is reflected upward.

WWII radars looked a bit different - square array, antenna masts or parabolic dishes (like a satellite receiver)
  
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What I thought, but is all painted black. IR?
   
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Assuming WWII, I donā€™t think active IR existed in large scale but Iā€™m really not an expert on this. I know very special forces (US, German) has sniper rifles with some kind of [active] IR systems but they were fairly large and obvious to carry around. Also panzer troops had some close to the end of the war but in very limited amounts.

A picture of the other side could have helped. Assuming that is the parabolic reflector the other side should either have a flat glass surface or a flat cover to protect the glass when not operational.

I must say ze Germans were quite the busy bees building that stuff back then. Also, I didnā€™t realize the turrets were of that size from pictures earlier in books. Shocked
 

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Various scenic vistas today from EngelĆøya to Faustā€™s.













 

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And today was a day of tunnels!!! Just a few of them.












This one is a little late to the party.

   
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SWEEEEEET little reindeer!! Although they are cute, Iā€™m glad thatā€™s it for them as they are a PITA when you go round a bend at 60mph and they are just standing in the middle of the road!!

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Bit of a wait for convoy van, but wasnā€™t that long.



Now the dilemma, there was me plus 2 cars behind me, is that lots? Should I have waited for a bigger crowd? Whistle

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Only mooses seen today, though I did see 2 real ones on that road a few years ago.



And this is me travelling light, honest!!

   
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@ kajtzu, it was the same shape, same paint finish, Iā€™m assuming not a cover and probably recently renovated, ISTR seeing it last time and it was a bit rusty.

And yes, these are big arras mounts for big arras guns. Thumbs Up



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This is one of the guns at Harstad.



And here's the searchlight thingie as I remember it from last visit.

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And my search for Batterie Dietle Guns brings up this blast from the past!! Shocked

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Oh, and some vids.

The ā€œcampsiteā€, one of the best wild camping places ever.



And when lost lamb get reunited with mummy sheep. Itā€™s a tear jerker!!



And my personal fave, tickles me every time.

   
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