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A lazy Sunday and a pleasant weather. I took my bike and started wandering around Oulu, aiming towards areas around Toppila, where I haven’t been often. There’s a lot of yellow voikukkia everywhere:

Taking bicycle paths at random (if there’s a crossing of four paths and a sign, one going towards city center, two to some suburbs, and one not marked, guess which one I took? Right, and it lead to a small harbor), sometimes arriving at dead ends in suburbs and taking uncharted forest paths from there, I reached the seaside in Toppila. Going along the straight and boring route it’s about 4 km from my place to there, but I managed to find a 23 km long route, according to GPS log.

Somewhere around there is the strangest intake of water ever built into a dam:

It looks cool, makes a lot of waterfall-noise, and is fascinating in general, but is there some actual functional reason for the shape and form of this creation? If it’s just for the looks, it should be a bit more accessable, I had to climb some low fences to get even this close.