Continue down through the town, a lovely walk down to Bogø harbour and back again. On your way there are many things to look at. Try e.g. to find the many different schools which are or have been on Bogø. Rytterskole (a Danish primary school for the children of peasants who served in a royal regiment), navigation school, primary school, boarding school, continuation school. Bogø is a real island of schools. Notice all the many different types of fences, hedges, picket fences you pass on your way through the town of Bogø.
If you are really curious and would like to go off the island for a while, you may take the ferry to Stubbekøbing, take a walk through town and sail back again. Ferries are becoming rare in Denmark so you may have to take advantage while it is still there. In the old days they said, ”water unites, land separates.” They sailed.
Like all other small communities in Denmark, Bogø has originally contained almost all vital functions. It was another world they lived in back then.
Bogø Mill is a windmill which is of course placed on the top of a hill where there is lots of wind. The mill is completely restored to its original state and it is interesting to enter and see how they used the wind power in the old days to turn grain into flour. Møn Tourist Office can inform you as to where you may pick up the key for the mill. Notice how wood has been used for almost all constructions and find out how wind can be transformed into turning millstones which can grind the grain into flour. It is not that easy at all.
When you move toward Bogø Vesterskov (the western forest) it may last some time before you are able to see the forest. It is namely still in its making. Just imagine, one day these tender saplings will be giants in a forest!
Vesterskoven has existed on Bogø for many, many years, much longer than the forest itself. But when you followed it you just came to some fields. The explanation is that once, a very long time ago, a forest grew here. When the King, Christian 7th, chose to sell Møn, Nyord and Bogø in 1769 the residents on Bogø had a chance to buy themselves free if they could present enough capital. They couldn’t, just like that. In order to get enough money and thus be free from being taken over by an estate and a landlord the farmers chose to cut down the forest and sell the wood.
The dam connecting Bogø and Møn is really long. You cannot see from one end to the other. The dam was built in 1943. Earlier there was a ferry between Bogø and Møn. The ferry sailed from Lille Damme to Ålborg bridge. The ferry was a rowboat.
The Swedish King, Karl Gustav, chose to wade from Bogø to Møn when he attacked the island in 1659. There was a big battle on Damme Mader. You will be able to see the monument on Møn on the left side of the road a couple of kilometres from the dam. For a long time it was thought that it was an inhabitant from Bogø who had betrayed Møn and had shown the king the ford through the shallow water. It luckily turned out to be a certain, later ill regarded, person from Stubbekøbing.
Pass the dam with care, there is often heavy traffic. Look at the many web-footed birds, ducks, coots, swans, mergansers which often settle in the shallow water to find food. Fishing is really good at the whole in the dam so maybe you want to pause here.