Continuing on my Get to Know Your Own Country Better -mission, I tagged along to my parents 27th wedding anniversary trip to scuba diving in to an old quarry in Southern Ostrobothnia. Mind you, I don't dive, I just enjoyed the weather and beautiful scenery with my camera, while my parents dived.

My day did not start out good, as I had planned on shooting all weekend but of course forgot my camera charger home some 150 kilometers away. I was so pissed at myself. Obviously there are no stores that sell camera equipment in a 100 kilometer radius, but luckily dad agreed to take a little detour to this huge shopping center where we found the most gimmicky charger ever. It's one of those "Charge all your batteries with this one wonderful devise", and you have to fiddle with it for 10 minutes to start charging, but it did do the job finally and now you can feast your eyes on these pictures.

Kaatiala is an old quarry where they used to mine feldspar and quartz (weirdly no crypto mining), but they closed their operations in 1968. After that the quarry naturally filled with clear water and has since been popular among divers. The waters in Finland are mostly dark and not that deep so an old quarry is a great place to dive. I believe the max depth in Kaatiala is something like 40 meters, if you go on to the caves.

I really wish I had a polarized filter to minimize the reflections on the surface of the water.

Ahhhh, such a rare sight in Finland, clear waters with my favourite shades of blue and green.

Let me know how you like these, and if you'd to see more random parts of Finnish nature.