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Stensjö is a small place on the Swedish west coast, located at the coast line between the two cities Falkenberg and Halmstad.
Stensjö has a beautiful landscape and scenery according to me, look at the photos below and be your own judge. Please don't criticise my photos to much, I am just an amateur photographer.

These photos are taken from a small hill...

towards the South-West. Overlooking the beach and the small island "Tärneskär", and "Skärver" in a near distance.	towards the West. Overlooking the beach and the small islands "Tärneskär" and "Fågelholmen".	towards the North-West. Overlooking the small island "Fågelholmen".	towards the North-North-West. Overlooking a harbour for small boats and in the distance the city Falkenberg.

The beach.

These photos are taken from the sea...

from the North-West. A little bit of the island "Fågelholmen" is seen to the right.	from the South-West. A little bit of the island "Fågelholmen" is seen to the left.

Although the beach is quite small (as Stensjö is) it's very versatile and have some nice features, it got grass, sand and smooth cliffs (even rugged if you prefer), the beach has a good natural protection against large waves and currents even at hard winds thanks to two small islands, even a third island another 400 meters away.

The beach is even "protected" by some small reefs and large boulders just below the surface, especially one reef is so close to the surface that it get above the surface at low tide, so take care and study the charts if you arrive by boat, even a canoe can hit the reef.

Stensjö do have a small boat harbour for small sailing and motor boats, the depth in the harbour is only 1.0 meter, so please don't try to enter it by a larger sailing boat or a yacht.

One of the largest crabs I have ever seen was captured with a fishing net at the sea outside Stensjö in the beginning of July 1999, it weighed 1653 grams. The pincers weighed 700 grams together, 350 grams each, in size these were almost as big as a human hand.
No doubtly is there someone that got a bigger crab but for me and some people I know this is the biggest.

Here are some photos on the crab.

The crab is being weighed	The crab in a little closeup

Photo gallery

Image covering the small harbour and the islands "Fågelholmen", "Tärneskär" and "Skärver".	Image in more closeup, barely covering the small harbour and the islands "Fågelholmen", "Tärneskär" and a small piece of "Skärver".

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This page was last updated 2006-03-10.