Collecting mushrooms with rented electric car #Ulog4
Got inspired of @bescouted photos to use flash in forest at middle of the day. Couldn't wait any longer so i convinced my SO that we need some mushrooms to make kottletis and sauce for buckwheat. We knew that it's not the season yet, but walking in clean forest is already rewarding enough. To make thing interesting i rented an electric car(38€ per day) that can go up to 100 km with full tank. In Estonia you can easily rent electric car with your phone and charge it free in over 167 charging stations(for small country Estonia it's far enough). Mushrooming spot was about 60 km from Tallinn and oh how wrong i was about the mileage. Little Nissan Leaf only handled 60km, so we made a stop in gas station to fill it up. After finishing our hot dogs, the tank was charged to 90%. Amazingly fast, took about 20 minutes from 20% to 90%!
Plan was to drive deep in the forest, in hope that there's more mushrooms. In first 30 minutes we found this cutie
Leccinum scabrum aka Red-capped scaber stalk
A very edible mushroom that's one of my favourites. It doesn't need any boiling and is delicious in sauces. Just add some butter on pan and fry it 10 minutes. DELICIOUS!
First photo is without flash. Bottom one was done with my SO holding flash above it with 45 degree angle.
Soon after we started finding more mushrooms and got so excited that I forgot that I came here to make photos :D Small dopamine shots that you get by seeing new mushrooms makes you more focused on the goal and you forget everything else. Luckily I marked our car on Google maps, so we had no trouble finding it later :)
On our way back to car we noticed a mushroom that I couldn't classify, but because it looked legit and was pretty big, we took it anyway :)
Leccinum scabrum aka birch bolete aka scaber stalk
SO found a cute frog that she wanted to catch and demanded that i take a photo with the frog on top of mushroom. Who can argue with her, it looked cute AF :)
Birch bolete with cute frog
This one my SO hold flash almost above the tree trunk. Looks ominous :P
Somebody lost their scoop net :(
Sunset was close and we decided to find our way out of the forest. We had travel so deep in forest that even google maps didn't show any roads to direct us out. So we had to do it old school.
Car showed that we had 30 km left, so we had to preserver every energy we had. Turned off radio, display, lights and tried to keep speed steady as possible. With little sun shining between clouds we managed to pinpoint north and approximate direction where highway might be. Unfortunately the road we chose lead us to dead-end and wasted 10km of electricity.
After big fuck up we decided to do some more research before we move anywhere. After 20 minutes of intense reading i found old website that was funded by Estonian government where all small roads where charted. Even with knowledge which road to take, we still were in a pickle, because we had 20 km left and highway was about 13 km and from there we had to drive to gas station to charge our car, which was about 5 km. Of course i knew that car has small emergency battery somewhere, but nowhere to know how much it would help us.
Sunset was over and i had to turn on lights to at least see some road and to scare of any possible bears. Lights lost us 3 km. When all hope was lost and we had 6 km left, we started to hear sweet sound of highway - civilization. One thing i didn't calculate is that it's not that easy to turn back in highway. We could see gas station with our eyes but to get there we had to do 4km detour. By the time we arrived there, car had only 1 km left. Felt like a movie, where bombs counter stops exactly on 1 :D What an adventure it was. 10/10 would try it again!
Results: about half a bucket of mushrooms, mostly boletes, some milk mushrooms and few golden chanterelle. Enough for 2 coarse meal :)
Next time we are planning to grab a tent, to do some mushroom picking at daytime and star time lapses at night. Keep mushrooming ;)
For better feeling, read it here: http://ungert.photos/collecting-mushrooms-with-rented-electric-car-ulog4/
Wow I think I am going to add Estonia to my bucket list. Electric cars here are expensive I think and there are only few charging stations.
Seems like a fun adventure. 😅
Maybe I will check on bescouted's post too just for the flash effect.
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@artgirl will be waiting :) To rent, you first need register at: http://elmorent.ee/en/
Cool! Thanks. 👍👍👍
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That was an awesome adventure you took us on! And, your pics are just amazing. Fantastic!
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thanks @call-me-howie :) keep in touch, next trip will produce even better pics
I can't wait. You did a great job here!
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The photo with a flash looked like a night setting but focus is still good. And yes, that frog is worth a shot. It is cute!
Good thing that you got out of the forest eventually even at dark. The forest has many wonders that can catch attention and kill more time so yes, it is better to plan with longer duration. But didn't you say bears? Won't they be a threat for overnight camping?
@macoolete They will, but i planning to leave some sort of light on, to keep them at bay. Theres also a cool map that shows how many possible bears are around us :) Chances are small
Oh, so just lighting will keep them away? That's pretty easy I guess, especially with help of that map. Sounds like it's gonna be fun!
Some music might also keep them away. You just shouldn't startle them. If you let them know where you are, they will keep distance.
That's cool. They know there place somehow.
All of the campgrounds around here have bear. They are really common. There are even some in the woods behind my house.
You just have to be aware and know the proper precautions to take. Mostly just little things like not leaving food out. They do become a bit protective when they have cubs.
or just go with headchange, that would scare anything away!
Hey how would you even know that? But thanks kinda good for my reputation to sound all scary and stuff. 🐻
hahha! that was the meanest thing I could think of to say but in reality you'd be the last person that anyone would want to be with because bears can sense things and your sweetness would attract them like flies to a carcass!
whereas someone mean and ornery might repel them.
Yep that cowboy charm works every time. But flies to a carddass? yick
Hahaha... I guess rednecks could do better with wild animals, ain't that so?
Really? Was there any instance when they just come out of the woods and be friendly? I am just thinking of few wild animals we had when I was a child. Wild chickens came home and stayed with us though I know chickens can be domesticated.
Few years ago, a deer came home to a family in the neighborhood and stayed with them for few months before disappearing.
Well they do come around but "friendly" is not what I would call it. They like to steal the food from campsites.
My husbands aunt feeds one that comes to her house. Most people think she is crazy but I think it is pretty neat.
On the other hand there are lots of wild animals from the woods who come and pay visita. Right now I have a family of possum and some raccoon. We also have deer in the yard quite often.
There is a landfill a few miles away. You can often encounter a bear at that location. And there are many places with signs posted saying do not feed the bear lol
We have a season where deer hunting is permitted. Tame deer are so common here that the custom is to tie a ribbon around its neck if it is a friend. The hunters will not shoot at a deer wearing a ribbon.
Ever hear of Grizzly Adams. A fictional show but you made me think of it.
Story about a guy who raises a grizzly as a friend.
Youtube has full episodes.
Wow! It sounds cool to be having all those wild animals around. So bears can't be friendly afterall? I wonder why it is made to give the impression about being lovable because of "bear hug."
Oh! What an adventure! I have never traveled anywhere in an electric car. You did make me aware of what some of the potential problems might be.Your photos are beautiful and it looks like your mushroom hunting was a grand success!
@melinda010100 Thank you :) I was aiming for an adventure when i rented that car. Never thought it will be such a close call :)
Glad you made it back safely and had a lovely meal out of it too!
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That turned out to be an exciting adventure! You must have been really tensed and really careful not to take the wrong route when the car was running out on electricity but well, it ended up being one funny experience!
I love the photos of the mushrooms you took, so many different species (3 actually). And that from sitting on the top of the mushroom looks like he is "home". Did you take his home away from him? lol. I love the photo of the tree trunk too
@audreybits 3 species, rly :O What was the third one :P ?
Nah, my girl found frog nearby while I was shooting the mushroom. She "borrowed" little man just to make the photo :)
Hahah! Well, it turns out that little man felt like "home" up there! He had a glimpse of home, and the home disappeared in a moment.... Lol!
About the species, I must probably be mistaken on that one... Well, you should know better...
howdy from Texas sir annaabi! wow you couldn't have scripted this adventure any better! what a close call getting back to the station with that little power left!
the photos are excellent, my favorite one being the frog on top of the mushroom so overall a great job!
Are you going to the same forest next time or was that too close of a call, too scary to try that one again?
@janton Im very honored.
I'm planning on going to similar forest thats close to it. Mostly because on light pollution map it shows very low interference from light. It also has my favourite forest that has very few trees that have leaves. We have tick season and leafy trees and bushes are the ones where they like to reside.
I will definitely go back there. I learned my mistakes and they are less likely to occur again :)
howdy again sir annaabi! I understand about learning from our mistakes and I would avoid the areas with ticks in them at all costs, I hate those things! lol very good sir and good luck on your next trip!
Wow I like the photos in the dark especially well. Looks a bit like in the movie Avatar, where everything has lurked in great colors at night.
The mushrooms I would pack myself on a delicious steak :-)
Great post @annaabi
@avizor yep the "night look" is what got me inspired by @bescouted photos. I never thought you could make daytime photos look like that.
I'm interested, how would you use mushrooms with steak ? As a sauce or smth else ?
One moment 😬that was during the day time?
Very good 👍 that’s even much better...
I have now an eye on you ;-) and thanks also for the hint with @bescouted
😜 but back to topic. I would fry them in a pan first, with oil and some onions. And then use them as a topping :-)
oh very nice straight up approach :P i'll definitely try (Y)
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