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This week's story by Urij Shmakov is one of very many from the Far East Travel
Club on http://www.taimentour.ru/.
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"...When you first see the beauty of nature in the Far East, the
ecologically-pure places not spoiled by human process, wild animals in their
habitat, a roaring high country river, there are feelings you get that you have
never experienced before. You will want to come here again and again. These
feelings have united all of us...."
the Far East Travel Club on
http://www.taimentour.ru/.
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We have started photo pictorial narrations to learn about
the world and share these stories with you.
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So we decided to go to Shantari... - our friends
were wondering, "are you serious"?
When they learned we were going to Shantari on a trimaran across the sea of
Okhotsk, our friends were speechless and pointed their fingers at their temples
which meant, apparently, only nuts would depart on three rubber cylinders onto
the stormy sea.
Yep, we were really nuts to travel there where nobody else would go, but when
Igor Olhovsky suddenly called and asked "Do you want to go with us to
Shantari"? - I didn't hesitate a second. "Yes, I replied"!
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Shantari is an archipelago consisting of 15 islands in the sea of Okhotsk. The
Khabarovsk scientist Gennady Rosljakov wrote in his 1998 book about the
islands: "If you look at the islands from the aspect of a bird's flight, the
impression you get, is as if a giant dropped a heap of stones and rocks in the
water. This is how these surprising, mysterious "islands on the horizon" appear
on the sea of Okhotsk map. The biggest island is Big Shantar. It's area is 1790
sq. kilometers. Second-largest is Island Feklistov (393 sq. km). Other islands
are smaller in size from 2 to 20 sq. km.
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Experts consider, that the archipelago Shantarsky is
of a continental origin and was separated from the continent only 9-10 thousand
years ago. The same experts state that the islands slowly rise...
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Shantari is full of living creatures. In the sea,
whales, sharks, and seals. In the rivers - fish. In stony areas it is possible
to catch crabs and pick up welded cockleshells - trumpeters. Well, crabs are
clearly good eating, but from the welded trumpeters "leg" you can pick out with
a knife "some" leg. It is tasty, certainly, but to get full, you should crack a
kettle of cockleshells...
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