Riga Gulf and ships, and waves.

Jumping off the boat into Riga Gulf

At the beach

The chilly weather does not stop people from being recharged at sea, which is always just minutes away if you live in Riga.

Guest photographer Edgars Lubarts

Sun set in Riga Gulf

Another excellent image sent in from our guest photographer Edgars Lubarts.

Terrain of Europe

Latvia (not Riga) as a national unit is a very recent phenomena. Ir is not even 100 years old. The ethnic HiStory of Balts is not well documented. I would call it LowStory.

Jaunums (in Latvian) means NEWS, novelty. The world is linked to Juvenile.

P.S. I recently realised that NEWS = North, East, West and South.

Riga Gulff

There is one place in the city centre open to the public, where you can actually see the narrow strip of the Baltic Sea. In Summer time it is just about where the sun settles its way over the horizon.

The first summer day

Hot hot hot - the "summer like" weather has reached Riga.

Sunset in Riga

As sun dove below clouds above us it illuminated them from below for a moment just before disappearing below horizon. If you look closely you can see cargo ships queing at the entrance to Daugava river.

Sunset

Our guest photographer Edgars Lubarts is presenting a photography with a question - what do you see in the foreground?

Have you swam this year yet?

By odd accident Riga was placed at the shores of the Baltic Sea. It is very rarely producing massive waves and if they do - not for a long time and at the "wrong" season (when you can not enjoy them). On the other hand a calm sea is a warm sea and people can enjoy swimming at this Northern latitude and besides that - it keeps Riga and Latvia warmer in autumn and early winter.

Da best beach in the world:)

You can watch sun setting in the Baltic sea, pack your gear and in one hours drive away you can be on the other side of the Riga Gulf waiting for the sun to rise from the sea. I agree with people who think that Latvia has best beaches in the world - undescovered though:) Having said that, under Soviet regime Jurmala resort got several hundred thousand visitors from other Soviet republics and since the Soviet collapse has not been able to achieve same numbers again.

For a small country with its extraordinarily long shore line you can find all sorts of beaches- quite, crowdy, windy and calm.

Have one guess who is trying to harness the power of wind?

Riga Gulf

Northern wind was cooling it down, but sun made it a fantastic day yesterday.

The brightest one in a middle with unspeakable stillness.

This is Riga Gulf in Riga resort city Jurmala (seaside). Amazingly calm today - never seen it like that. Quite a lot people were swimming, some of them sun bathing or playing volley. I didn't turn the camera on them I just walked along the shore occasionally jumping in and out of the water watching waves spreading towards the sun beams.