Report your special cruise this summer with a postcard from the High Coast!

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At Docksta Havet Base Camp you find a wide range of our exclusive postcards about the High Coast, collecting some amazing and unusual pictures shooting the waters and shorelines around the the Höga Kusten World Heritage.

Seaside postcards are a smart and easy way to say "thinking of you": use them to tell your friends and family about Sweden and your cruising around the High Coast over the summer! :-)

High Coast Postcards are exclusive and limited edition available for the guests of the marina, or for High Coast's passionates. You're welcome at the Sailor's Club House during the summer!

For this first edition, we selected around 50 different shots, some of them are unpublished, others are chosen within the pictures published into the High Coast Images section of this website. The sea and the Höga Kusten nature are the main actors and new editions of the High Coast Postcards are planned.

Seashore postcards are living a new fashion around the world. In UK is one of the hotspots for the up coming seaside season. magazine launched the "Coast's save the postcard campaign" and they have been inundated with enquiries, so now they discovered that British love postcards, after all! "It seems that there is something about the seaside postcards'mix of genial message, scenic views and whiff of nostalgia that brings out the sentimental in us" says Clare Gogerty (Editor of Coast magazine).

British seaside postcards (Font: Wikipedia) - In 1894, British publishers were given permission by the Royal Mail to manufacture and distribute picture postcards, which could be sent through the post. The first UK postcards were produced by printing firm Stewarts of Edinburgh and early postcards were pictures of famous landmarks, scenic views, photographs or drawings of celebrities and so on. With steam locomotives providing fast and affordable travel, the seaside became a popular tourist destination, and generated its own souvenir-industry: the picture postcard was, and is, an essential staple of this industry. Divided Back - Postcards with a back divided into two sections, one for the message, the other for the address. British cards were first divided in 1902 and American cards in 1907.