Noux
Noux (or Nuuksio, as it’s known in finnish) is the nearest national park to Helsinki. It was established in 1994, and embarrassingly enough it took me fourteen years to visit it. The day spent there was pleasant indeed, and I’m willing to bet that the next visit will happen with a much shorter interval.
The day was pretty much clouded over. Which was good temperature-wise, but not so good when it comes to photography. But it didn’t rain at all, which was a definite bonus.
There are three paths of varying length in the park, but we pretty much ignored all of them, and just walked randomly (unlike me, the others were veterans of the park). The lake highlands were good for variety - from trampling through mossy marshland to crossing faster by walking on the crest of a cliff.
Didn’t spot the emblem of the park, the rarely sighted flying squirrel, but saw my first ever red-throated divers (that’d be kaakkuri, the closest relative of kuikka, in finnish). Also sighted and shown here: plenty of lingonberries, fancy looking lichen, and a really big and bright green grub.
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