News in English
These News were started on 18th May 2010 to keep our English speaking friends up-to-date about everything important that happens in Eräkeskus! For older News and more pictures, please refer to the German pages!
29.08.2010 / summer seems to be over, autumn just started
Longtime no updates... sorry to our readers of the English pages! The summer weeks were too busy to make all the necessary administration work!
After a short period of cooler days (last news), the summer came back with temperatures on record-levels: air up to 39 degrees, lake water up to 32 degrees. Almost no rain was falling and whole North-Carelia was drying out. But now... finally... since a bit more than 1 week, temperatures dropped down remarkeably: in the night we have only arond 3 - 7 degrees, day-temperatures rise a bit over 10 degrees. Forests and bushes started to change their colours, Indian SUmmer, or who we call it here "Ruska" has started!m Also regular rain-falls arrived in the area and so we still have some hopes for a good mushroom-year.
The dogs start to get nervous, now they have the temperatures to run again... training has not yet started, we wait for our 2 new training-carts, which are supposed to be delivered by mid-September. And as we still have "summer-guests" here for 4 more weeks, there is not enough time for training. Although we humans also get a bit nervous when thinking about the soon starting fun with dog-training!
Our team will start getting bigger again for winter-season: end of September, Erik and Sanne arrive as first ones. Gregory and Sibylle a bit later. We are looking forward having them here and meet new collegues.
We hope you enjoy autumn as much as we do here! Start thinking about your winter-holiday early enough! Now you can still find cheak flights to Joensuu or Kuopio for Christmas or New Years time. Why not spend a relaxed week in Eräkeskus?
See you!
19.07.2010 / finally nicer temperatures
Summer goes on, since last weekend finally with nicer, lower temperatures. At the moment we enjoy nice, "normal" summer with 20 - 28 degrees C. The lake has almost 24 degrees today. Some rain was falling during the last days, it was desperately awaited by mother nature.
The pups are growing, almost 7 weeks now. Kela, the mother is showing them new, interesting things during their little excursions. Later this week, they will have their first car-ride to Lieksa for vaccinations.
Yesterday´s bear-night was again succesful; we have a 100%-success-rate so far during this summer. Let's hope, Martin and his 4 guests will also be lucky on Thursday night! Check out Facebook for a video of last bear-night!
12.07.2010 / a little bit too hot...
Maybe a little bit too hot... but who wants to complain! The last 10 days were always close to 30 degrees C, and no changes expected. We go swimming as often as we can, with or without dogs. The puppies start walking around to explore the area and still at midnight perfect pictures can be taken. The next one is from 3 nights ago, taken just before midnight!
02.07.2010 / Great Summer!!
What a great start into summer! Temperatures are between 20 - 28 degrees C, water temperature reached 21 by yesterday evening. It's almost too dry and we would appreciate some more rainfalls. The first mushrooms can be seen and soon the blueberries will be ready.
Our puppies are growing well and exploring their world step by step; every day a bit more active! They are already 1 month old and are so sweet!
A long-term project, the swimming pool for our dogs, is finally finished and the dogs seem to love it! They have now direct access from the fenced playing-yard to the lake and can go swimming or just cooling down!
We saw several bears during the last observation night, but hope for a bit better lights during next night to get great pictures from these impressive huge animals.
July will be rather busy here with up to 16 guests at the same time and many guided activities. But still we try to keep you update regularly!
23.06.2010 / Midsummer
Midsummer is already over! But no worries, the long days and almost not existing nights will last for another few weeks. Reading a book at midnight outside! No problem! Actually the most beautiful colours of nature are right now in the middle of the night, when sky and clouds are colored in spectacular shades of red/rose/viola. It's worth to stay out the whole night! Sunset today at 23h17, sunrise tomorrow at 02h46
09.06.2010 / Summer is getting closer...
We got puppies from Kela and Timmy! 7 little Alaskan Huskies were born on 2nd June early morning!
The first guests already left back home; they were riding, biking, swimming in the lake, fishing in the nature resort of Änäkäinen and had a bear-night out in the Kainuu Wilderness. While serving them, we continued the painting of all our outside walls and the end of this task comes closer...
A few impressions of early summer in Eräkeskus:
29.5.2010 / Seasonstart
Last Thursday, the first guests arrived. Luckily the temperatures dropped a bit and are again at a normal level for this time of the year, during daytime at 14 - 18 degrees C. Swimming in the lake is already possible, everything is covered with fresh green and flowers start to grow everywhere.. It's probably the best time of the year for biking, hiking and paddling! Not too hot, but a lot of sun, some 20 hours daylight, short thunderstorms from time to time and almost no mosquitos.
We are outside-painting all the buildings and it's amazing how different they look! The bar/lounge area will be renewed until end of June and finally we are building also the swimming pool for the dogs, plannings started a long time ago. And of course we are waiting for the puppies of Kela, who already lives in the house, where she will give birth to their pups withing the next few days.
18.5.2010 / Our English pages are finally online - a long-time-project is realised!
Welcome on our new English pages, where you find basic information about us, the lodge, the dogs and all our programs. We hope you like them and hope to see you here in beautiful North-Carelia one day!
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