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Photo-report on a kayak trip around Lake Baikal

Baikalo-Lensky Nature Reserve

Cape Elokhin (74 Kb) Elokhin (74 Kb)

9th August, 47th day out, 1373 km. Cape Elokhin - the northern boundary of the Baikalo-Lensky Nature Reserve.

10th August, 48th day out, 1373 km. View from Cape Elokhin towards the Cape Zavorotny.

Cape Severny Kedrovy (59 Kb) Cape Zavorotny (37 Kb)

10th August, 48th day out, 1379 km. View from the Baikalsky Range not far from the stream Ledyanaya towards Cape Severny Kedrovy.

11th August, 49th day out, 1407 km. Evening afterglow. Cape Zavorotny.

Cape Bolshoi Solontsovy (35 Kb) Swell (38 Kb)

11th August, 49th day out, 1422 km. Cape Bolshoi Solontsovy ahead. In a few minutes Gorny, the mountain wind, will rise up.

11th August, 49th day out, 1430 km. This isn't a storm, it's a wave run-up (swell) raised by the Kultuk wind. A hundred metres from the shore, waves reach a height of 2 metres. The crests of the waves breaking onto the shore reach approximately the same height. The Gorny wind is blowing head on into the waves.

Solontsovaya Bay (76 Kb) Cape Tyteri (57 Kb)

13th August, 51st day out, 1430 km. Forced stop at Solontsovaya Bay.

14th August, 52nd day out, 1452 km. On Cape Tyteri. Cape Shartlay in the distance. After three days of bad weather, Baikal presented us with a few days of calm.

Cape Shartlay (45 Kb) Cape Rytyi (59 Kb)

14th August, 52nd day out, 1461 km. On Cape Shartlay.

14th August, 52nd day out, 1474 km. On Cape Rytyi.

Next: Part 8. The western coast from Cape Kocherikovsky to River Angara




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