Kvarnholmen Morning Walk
This post is heavy on the images and light on the words. I also wasted a bunch of time adding some CSS image zoom enhancements.
I went exploring around the Finnboda shipyard area during the day this time, and by day I mean 0400 when the sun is up.
Here is a small shelter entrance.
The air compressor leads me to believe it may be spacious inside, but of course we’ll never know.
The morning sunrise is really fantastic.
Under the Elite Hotel Marina Tower, which used to be a factory generations ago.
I wonder why they carved out such a large space.
By far my favorite image out of 500, this one looks like HDR but it’s taken straight from the camera. Now my desktop wallpaper 🙂
Some unused building.
Danvikshem retirement castle.
Walking into the Finnboda area now.
I walked up the fire escape behind this yellow apartment building.
This is my second favorite photo, also straight from the camera. Morning provides the best colors!
Next to this Fogia building there is a shelter entrance, and then maybe a few hundred meters further down the road there is the exit.
 
The handle on the door turned but was obviously locked from the inside.
I had been wanting to get into this factory across the street.
This is the yellow house on the hill I explored in my last post.
And here’s a closer view of those concrete formations on the hillside I was wondering about. Apparently there’s a fence that surrounds that factory building and the whole construction area, so I had to walk around and find some other way.
I started walking up the hill behind the apartment buildings nearby to see if I could get on top of the cement wall.
And here is some random… boyscout fort?
So the top of the hill was fenced off as well, but I’ve come to learn that any worthwhile fenced off place will have a hole cut into it somewhere.
Here is a nice view. You can see the retirement castle on the right and the Henriksdal yellow apartment buildings where I live on the hill in the back left. Also in the bottom right is the other building I explored on my last nighttime post about Finnboda.
Great view.
So I’m basically on the top of that cement wall now.
Walking more inland to the top of the hill takes you to the Finnberget neighborhood.
I’m sitting in what looks to be a WWI gun emplacement, with a perfectly shaped picnic table.
Walking down the road to Kvarnholmen
At the bridge I went off the road to a clearing on the left.
Like I said, any cool place I find will have been visited before me–always by entrepreneurs with bolt cutters.
So I continued left on the patch of earth next to the bridge and walked down the side of the hill.
Across the street you can see the start of the fenced off construction area that wraps all the way around Finnberget’s northern side and back to the Finnboda shipyard with the tower crane and factory I wished to visit.
Here is my first interesting sighting, a building built into the side of Finnberget.
I’m not sure what’s inside because the bottom door was locked and I didn’t bother trying to climb to the upper one, but I was rewarded with a hole in the wall on the left side of the building.
And what have we here?
Nothing really. I was dissappointed because I thought it would be some entrance into the vast underground oil storage caverns inside Finnberget, but it was just an empty room of sorts.
Who knows what used to be here, a generator perhaps?
Well it was still a cool find. Going along with my tradition of disclosure (unlike those worthless cunts on the Flashback forums), the location of this find is here on Bing Maps. The one indispensable feature of BM is the aerial bird’s eye view, which is so much more useful for trying to find places than using Google Earth.
For those who don’t know, Flashback is essentially the one forum website for all of Sweden, which all Swedes know about and has hundreds of thousands of members. I’ve spent many many hours toiling around the urban exploration subforum in my time, and I mean countless hours of trying to extract useable information through google translate.
The one insurmountable characteristic of the users who post in that forum though is secrecy, and you can read pages and pages of threads where people describe in abstract terms the vague locations of their finds. It’s like noone wants to share their locations so they can feel like they’re apart of some bullshit cool kid’s circle jerk club or something.
Although suffice to say, if you spend enough time there you can in fact glean enough information to point you in the direction of places to explore yourself, and a lot of the cool idea’s I’ve had for trips (like going to Myttinge in my miaden post) were born there. So anyway…
Cruise ship coming into town.
And some old docks. Actually I have it feeling it was a long ship launching platform which began at the cement wall.
Ok so I swear to god this bird was trying to scare me off when I walked too close to a pillar its nest was on top of.
It basically kept flying around me in circles and making a shit load of awful noise so I got the message and moved on.
If you think about it, I there was probably a lubricated ramp on top of these pillars because it goes all the way out from the shipyard to the water.
Yep I’m just going to call it right now: shiplaunching ramp.
So here we are.
No, I couldn’t get inside, and I’m hella pissed. It’s a flimsy ass lock though.
I did get to take a sneak peak though. I wanna go insiiiiiide 🙁
Never really been at the base of a tower crane before.
Here I stitched two pics together.
Some random flooded manhole in the ground while walking back to the edge of the construction zone at Finnbergstunneln.
Lol so I just had to search google to confirm my spelling for that word and clicked on this youtube video from the first page. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I HOPE this blog is more interesting to people than shit like this.
No, it has to be. That’s what I will tell myself.
Anywho. I walked down the street back in the direction of the bridge. Here is the view standing on the bridge looking towards the water. Notice that pipeline and the catwalk on the left. That was my next target.
And here is turned around looking in the other direction. I’m probably going to reuse this pic in my next post but this I found to be really interesting. Those pipes clearly go straight into the side of Finnberget, and from this angle you can sort of see what looks like to be a tunnel entrance. I believe I found the main input for the oil caverns after all! I filed this away in my things to investigate folder and moved on up the road to Kvarnholmen.
Looking back towards Finnboda.
So the pipes hug the hill next to the neighborhood on Kvarnholmen (there’s like three rows of houses built for workers decades ago and that’s it), so I walked through this neighborhood and at the end of a residential street I walked off.
Getting close now.
Look what we have here
Sometimes I think I just get lucky, but really, you can pretty much expect to find a hole in the fence anywhere a fence comes between you and exploring someplace cool.
Next image is a panorama. I spent hours trying to figure out a way to make it zoom, but only zoom to a maximum 100% of the browser width. As far as I know it’s not possible. If it goes off the screen, there’s nothing you can do. I need to find a workaround for this somehow.
And here’s the biggest; three images together!
This place basically looks like a junkyard up here.
Hi there.
There was a strong smell of oil in the air around this broken section of pipe.
So as I cam around the bend I saw a person walking next to the white van off in the distance (you can’t really see). I freaked out cuz I thought this place was empty but I immediately turned around and walked the long way down the pipes back towards the bridge. I’d like to come back exploring earlier in the morning some time and see what’s at the eastern edge of the penninsula.
It was 0600 now, much too late to be sneaking around. I decided to walk back home. As I went across the bridge I noticed this smoke stack building which the oil pipes went to.
that door looks inviting, doesnt it? 😉
I like how they are using narrow guage rail road track as a guard rail here.
The end!
