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Uhlu's Quarries , Vehmaa

Vehmaa is a typical small archipelago municipality. There are some stone quarries in the area, some of them decommissioned and some operating. Suomen Kiviteollisuus OY quarries fine-grained balmoral red granite stone from Uhlu, the western one of the two Uhlus alongside the road to Kustavi. Close to the site there's also an abandoned quarry, which nowadays is totally fillt with cyan shaded water. There's no information about what they quarried, but it was probably stone since the place isn't marked as a metal deposit spot on the explorer map of GSF, which should be a very reliable information source.

An aerial photograph of the operating quarry is available at the company's website behind this link. The place is being used so it's not very interesting, but the other one is. We found the impossible-to-find-accidentally place after information from a diver community's webpage. They had been diving at the quarry and took also pictures. Saaristomeren puolisukeltajat is the page, which has lots of pictures but is heavy to load.

Our version of a photo of the quarry still being used. This one was easier to find, you only had to know you're looking for Uhlu and follow the road signs. A small road goes by the quarry somewhere deeper to the woods.

Is life worth living or should I jump? The edges can be walked without disturbing fences. Like usually, the photo isn't quite capable of bringing the sense of danger to the screen although it's less than one feet away from the point of no return.

Machine and lego brick resembling granite boulders.

Opposite side stone wall.

This quarry is obviously not in very active use. Two cranes can hardly be seen at all, even though they stand right in front of you.

The day was very warm and this place was about perfect find after a few hundred kilometers of driving in black, not air-conditioned car. Visibility was good, even without any diving equipment you could see much stuff under the water. That's why the glasses. The divers' page says that there should even be perches residing this artificial lake, but I wouldn't be too sure about that.

As you see, also someone else dared to come swim in the quarry. It would probably be much more popular refreshment place if the strand would be nicer to walk on and if the place wasn't at the outer limits of civilization, somewhere in a place that most people have never heard of.

We did find some relics of the exploding business not sunk. The storage cage for explosive agents is in the woods, a rock-throw away from the quarry.

Explosive stuff..

	Our version of a photo of the quarry still being used. This one was easier to find, you only had to know you're looking for Uhlu and follow the road signs. A small road goes by the quarry somewhere deeper to the woods.
	Is life worth living or should I jump? The edges can be walked without disturbing fences. Like usually, the photo isn't quite capable of bringing the sense of danger to the screen although it's less than one feet away from the point of no return.
	Machine and lego brick resembling granite boulders.
	Opposite side stone wall.
	This quarry is obviously not in very active use. Two cranes can hardly be seen at all, even though they stand right in front of you.
	The day was very warm and this place was about perfect find after a few hundred kilometers of driving in black, not air-conditioned car. Visibility was good, even without any diving equipment you could see much stuff under the water. That's why the glasses. The divers' page says that there should even be perches residing this artificial lake, but I wouldn't be too sure about that.
	As you see, also someone else dared to come swim in the quarry. It would probably be much more popular refreshment place if the strand would be nicer to walk on and if the place wasn't at the outer limits of civilization, somewhere in a place that most people have never heard of.
	We did find some relics of the exploding business not sunk. The storage cage for explosive agents is in the woods, a rock-throw away from the quarry.
	Explosive stuff..