Our 50 cigarette butts met the cold, Archipelago Sea about 11 weeks ago, when they fell overboard from a ferry that was traveling from Stockholm to Turku, Finland. At first, they stayed more or less together, but then the currents started to shuffle them and dispersed the pack of butts. There are those, who have gotten entangled to the archipelago, have washed ashore and maybe are still there waiting to be picked up by seagulls or other seabirds looking for treasures. As the migratory birds have started to head back to north, there is more peaks to go around and to pick these orange butts, which might look as delicacies to them, but can be lethal for them, if eaten...

There are also a few runaway butts, lone rangers, which are drifting either southwest or northeast. These are the individuals, who managed to hitch a ride on a strong current. But even these ones are still on the map, there has not been a need to zoom out and decrease the scale of the map. On the other hand, who knows, how far they will end up. Then there is the silent majority, which have managed to break out from the Archipelago Sea and have been slowly moving towards south, some towards east. These butts seem to lack clear direction where to head, the currents have just played games with them. They have clocked many, many miles, but are not in the end that far away from the spot, where they hit the water in the first place. And as we all know, if you want to make it and see places, you got to be consistent… We’ll see in 4 weeks if our butts have matured enough and have left the nest. And on next week we will set our course to further north, to Bay of Bothnia. Stay tuned!