Day 7-Part 1 (Saturday July 30) Aero Island

The ferry boat lands at Aeroskobing on Aero Island. It was the former home of about 100 windjammers in the late 1600s, and every attempt is being made to preserve that history. Aero is now the home to 7000 residents, 500,000 visitors (including 3000 wedding parties) and 80,000 boaters.

We had wonderful accommodations, but many visitors come as campers.

Dave took an early morning bike ride. Here we ran into some fiord ponies, noted for their short legs and gentle nature. They use them with autistic children. These girls had just ridden out of the fiord. Again, I call it a shallow bay.

12th Century Bregninge Church. Denmark was late to the Reformation. Knowing what was about to happen, the priests buried the the Catholic icons under the floors of their churches. These were discovered many years later all over Denmark. Consequently, Denmark has the best preserved wooden statues from that time period of almost any place in the world.

Us right after lunch at Gammelgard with the rolling hills and water behind. Again we had that traditional opened faced sandwich combo, accompanied by local beer and schnapps.

Gammelgard is a former hunting lodge, complete with moat, that belonged to the royal family hundreds of years ago. Like much of what you see on Aero, it is being restored to its former state.

Old dog watching the sea. Taken by Vera on her morning walk while Dave was off bicycling.

The old town water pumps. These were the only public source of water until the early 1950s. This ends part 1 of our day on Aero. Part 2 will follow; there were just too many cool things to cover in one posting.

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