The high coast is at its most beautiful around the Skuleskogen National Park and at the rocky fishing spots on the islands of Ulvön and Trysunda. But you don't actually have to go very far from Örnsköldsvik to get a taste of the High Coast. Just outside Örnsköldsvik is the small fishing village Skeppsmalen in a rocky cove. You go here to wander among the red little fishing huts and buy freshly smoked whitefish, but also to sunbathe on the smooth rocks.

I, who was born in Örnsköldsvik, shouldn't write by the way Skeppsmalen. In Övik they say "Skeppsmaln”, with a long “aaa”. Actually calling itself Skeppsmalen - for Skeppsmaln on everything from the signs in the village to the address on the mailboxes. Here in the hooks is the northernmost border of the High Coast, although the borders are almost as disputed as in Österlen.
When I was little, we went sailing among the beautiful small islands of the High Coast every summer. Many nights have been slept in a sailboat ruff. Most of the time we went to Trysunda and every day we listened to the sea weather on the radio. "Skagsudde Syd 5". Have you ever wondered where Skagsudde is? Skagsudde is the white lighthouse located here by Skeppsmalen.

Since 1957 there has been a combined lighthouse and pilot station here on Skagsudde by the cliffs in Skeppsmalen. Before that, there was another lighthouse on a rocky island just outside here, but the place was very exposed to the elements and it was decided to move it to today's location. So now the lighthouse stands high up on the rocks here at Skagsudde, and looks out over the bathing rocks in viken below. A tip from an old Övik resident: Take a cooler bag with you and enjoy a bite to eat here on the rocks in the sun on a beach towel. I promise, there is nothing that invites deep conversation as much as the waves of the sea and the northern midnight sun.

Skeppsmalen is not only part of the world heritage of the High Coast, but there is also another unique attraction here. The Surströmming Museum. There is probably no food that is such a watershed in Örnsköldsvik as surströmming. If you have just moved into Övik, you will simply learn that the only way to socialize with your neighbors in August and September is through surströmming parties. I've forced myself into a few streaming clips over the years, hoping that someday it would be a pleasant experience. But I have now given up. I simply eat basically everything, except offal and especially sour stroming. But for a visit to the surströmming museum you don't have to love surströmming, which is very lucky.

How do I find it? Skeppsmalen?
Skeppsmalen and Skagsudde is on a peninsula about 3 miles southeast of Örnsköldsvik, Turn off at Idbyn just north of Örnsköldsvik, and you can easily get here by car.
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17 August, 2019 at 9: 26What beautiful photos! I would love to go there.
Eva Gyllenberg
17 August, 2019 at 9: 34Thank you! ? It's a very cozy place - which is also easy to visit if you drive north along the E4.
Maria's Memoirs
18 August, 2019 at 11: 37oh how cozy it looks, love this kind of coastal idyll 🙂 Your pictures actually remind me a lot of the west coast!
Eva Gyllenberg
3 December, 2019 at 19: 41The High Coast has much of what you love about the West Coast – the cliffs, the sea and the red houses. Then the High coast is a bit more beautiful if you ask me #inteallspartisk 🙂
.Gösta Ericsson stugvägen väja
28 July, 2020 at 17: 07Eva, do you know how to get in touch with the person who sells smoked whitefish in skeppsmaln, I have bought on several occasions, it is great, but I live down by the road and have missed it a few times
Eva Gyllenberg
28 July, 2020 at 23: 31Hello Gosta! Unfortunately, I have no idea. Hope you manage to figure it out next time you want to buy fish!