You hear a lot about the mosquitoes in Sweden. After a few holidays here I can tell you that in the archipelago it is not so bad. We religiously put up mosquito screens when we go to bed and that does the trick. Problem Sorted.
Until you arrive at Norrpadda!
Here they have a massive secret breeding program. It is obvious that it is all hush-hush because the vegetation is so dense that you can hardly go for a walk. There are some places where you can climb over some rocks, dive under some branches, wade through the shallows, but obviously it is designed to keep the uninitiated out.
What you do find when you are courageous enough to do the climbing, scrambling and wading are lots of small puddles teeming with wildlife, especially baby mozzies!
But the seasoned Sweden traveler has those mosquito-screens, so no worries, right?
Wrong!
Those mozzies on Norrpadda must be specially trained. I am convinced that they dive into the sea, swim into the toilet sea-cock and come out through the toilet-bowl. There simply is no other way of getting in. And in they came.
It was a night of carnage. I did kill about 20 of them. They retaliated by stinging me in approx. 20 places. We agreed on a draw as the morning broke and I fell asleep and skipped my 5am work-stint. I am monitoring the situation at the moment as I know that some of those SAS-trained buggers are still lurking inside the boat somewhere and just waiting for me to drop off to sleep.
Maybe you have a little breeding pool somewhere in the boat? Those mysterious little wet patches could be an indication that there is a puddle somewhere where they are reporducing like mad.