☀️ One of Europe’s most beautiful waterways ~ DALSLAND CANAL and KÖPMANNEBRO LOCK ~ Köpmannebro SWEDEN 🇸🇪

Come along and walk with me around the KÖPMANNEBRO #LOCK and a view at DALSLAND #CANAL ~ in Köpmannebro, Västra Götalands County, SWEDEN. 🇸🇪 We visited it last #SUMMER ☀️
People say it is one of EUROPE’S #MOST #BEAUTIFUL #WATERWAYS. Let’s have a look for yourself if that is the case 😊

With this post I’m joining in at the #Wednesday Walk #challenge. That is hosted by @tattoodjay every week on Wednesday.
‼️Have a look: Here in the Wednesday Walk Community if you want to join in!… the community is run by @tattoodjay.
Look at his last #Wednesdaywalk post. It will tell you also the rules of joining in at the Wednesday walk posts 😁 come join us!

Today’s photographic selection will be of 26 PHOTOGRAPHS
Date : 23 JULY 2024
The Photographs in this post are taken with my #iPhone
I will follow the time stamps on them. So it looks like you are experiencing my #adventures on this #walk to 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 #discover everything what I saw, like the little #details seen through my eyes.

Location of the lock at Köpmannebro we find on the following screenshots of Google Maps :

Zooming out you see it is located above Gothenburg:

On a beautiful #sunny Tuesday, while on our #road-trip to the UK 🇬🇧, we drove along the left side of the BIG #LAKES just above #GOTHENBURG
I saw a #tourist #attraction on google maps and we decided let’s stretch our legs and have a look. 😊

We parked our car on a spot next to the road and walked along the road towards the lock.
We see across the road a sign 🪧 we will check it out later when we walk back 😎

Standing next to the lock we peek around the corner to the right.

We cross the single road over the lock and have a look there first 😊
Beautiful, we can see rather far along the canal.

Crossing the road quickly again we stand next to the gates of the lock and look straight ahead 😎 a shame no #boat 🚤 is coming through the lock right now.

Zooming out a bit to take in the view better. On the left at the large tree next to a parking 🅿️ there is a little #restaurant. Perfect for lunch 🥗

We walk over the lock onto the grass to take in the views 🤓 A large bridge in the distance is just visible.

We walk a bit and go to the other side of the road again. As we walk further there is another river. As we are surrounded by #islands here 😊 we cross to the next small #island. Standing in the middle of a #bridge. We see the views along this part of the river.

I zoom in… the bright blue sky and the trees 🌳 are wonderful to see. The sky reflecting in the water.

Suddenly a bird dives down and just touches the water… see the rings? I managed to react fast and capture a photo with the bird flying just over the watersurface 🥰 DO YOU SEE IT? It is white 🪽

I zoom further in to show you the distance 😎

Look there are water lilies and their leaves floating on the edge of the river 🪷

We walk towards the opposite side, next to the lock is this part of the river. The small island is on the left.
We see this stunning view 🤩 the red Swedish house on the right. The motorboat 🚤 and 2 bridges in the distance. WOW… beautiful.

I capture it all and #love the #reflections in the water.

What a spot to have a house. 🏡 You can hop in your motorboat 🚤 and sail away into the distance.

Beautiful the reeds along the water.

We walk further again… I must say. It is a beautiful location for sure.

We reached the large sign 🪧 Some #photographs on the right. You see the islands better from above, the bottom photo 👇🏻

The sign has a lot of information, all in Swedish.

More information about the lock and canal / waterway you find in the following website: Vastsverige - Köpmannebro lock and Dalsland canal! in English

Wikipedia has the following information for you about the Dalsland canal!

The next website tells you also more about the Dalsland waterways / canal.
It mentions;

”Considered one of the most beautiful waterways in Europe”.

We walk further along the road and watch the river next to us.

The pier towards the little boats 🚤

We reach a cute red house 🏠 just look at the round windows.

Peeking around it we see more from the bridges. The #arches of the old bridge.

What a shot, the yellow little rowing boat 🚣🏻‍♂️ is just perfect 🤩

Looking over towards the right a bit more.

And Further… yes, I could spend some time around this area.

A shame we had to catch a ferry ⛴️ in Gothenburg and had to head back to the car.
I hope I could show you that this area is definitely worth a stop to check out along a route or visit of this area.

…and here I say that’s all for today’s post my friends.
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