Location
State: Estonia
Region: Muhu Parish
County: Saare
Parish: Muhu
Other references to the location
Rässa village, along the gravel road from the Kuivastu-Pädaste road 2 km to the South-West and South until Rässa village, from there 440 m to the South and South-East along a narrow village road on foot or on bicycle, from there to the South and 1 km to the South-West along a soil road.
Coordinates
lat=58.534502160854, lon=23.337627452658
58° 32′ 4″ N, 23° 20′ 15″ E
Description
150 m long and up to 40 m wide rocky peninsula with some small junipers. It is the peninsula where the Lõkits (Fire) appears and disappears, most often above the sea visible from there. Lõkits can also be seen from the neighbouring peninsulas and the Lõunaranna port of Simisti village.
Narrative
Rässa village’s Lõkits (bonfire, fire) is an inexplicable creature or natural phenomenon that many locals have seen at least since the early 20th century. The Lõkits often appears and disappears on the Kalama nina peninsula. Lõkits is seen most often in autumn, during periods of relative calm or high wind on the coastal waters and sometime inland as well. It sometimes stands still, sometimes moves onward quickly. Attempts to approach Lõkits have not succeeded. During the German occupation in 1918, Lõkits was fired on from a German warship, as it was considered a hostile signal fire.
Attraction
Very unusual and mysterious.
Availability
1.44 km by foot or bicycle along village and dirt roads.
Infrastructure, management, facilities
none
Local info
none
Capacity
up to 40
Publicity
Known
Legal Status
Private and state land, nature conservation
