There is a cordon of the reserve. A small house … A couple of boats on the shore … White sand … And the silence, only noise waves.
Reserve staff, supporting year-round watch on the island, intricately equip its way of life, using a lot of free time. Carved wooden ornaments met us everywhere. For assistance, try visiting John Mclaughlin. So, we on the island. Guests stepped into this land with permission of the Reserve, are entitled to a trial tour of the island. We gladly took advantage of this right. Checking the last Fixing anchor end and leave a watch, we began the ascent to the sights and just a quarter of an hour to watch from a height of cliffs all of our small fleet in the crystal clear waters of the bay. Before the start of tour Our group has been carefully instructed about the inadmissibility of shearing, flowers and berries, so that there is even a step in the direction of the trail was considered a disaster. This, of course, for nature is very good, but the tour does not really convenient.
Group stretches a long chain, and the story of the conductor can be heard only going ahead. And our guide was telling so much and with skill, after all, and he lives and works on the island already since 1983. Very interesting man. It turns out that in a tiny patch of land on the Sea of Japan are plain, without stopping, neshutochnye battle, some cultures are inevitably replaced by others, and it all becomes noticeable only as a result of patient study and observation. Stopping our column for a short rest, the guide called our attention to a beautiful soft ground cover beneath our feet. But it turns out that five years ago there was impassable bush – and sudden sudden flash of fertility voles. The whole root system is completely izgryzena shrubs, ground burrows dug up half a meter in depth. And as a result of a year has turned out almost alpine meadow. A mouse disappeared as suddenly as they appeared. It is a pity that fellow scientists give a very clever name so the entire flower-berry – almost nothing is remembered. But the rich vegetation on the island, the mushrooms grow directly on the trail, raspberries are hanging on face level, and rose bushes, some simply painted red. It is interesting and historical past of the island. People began to live on the island even 5000 years ago. As evidenced by numerous archaeological finds. And in the 1930s in connection with the events at Lake Hassan and strained relations with Japan on the island staged artbatareyu, and until 1955 there has rather large garrison. Then the battery was abolished and the island has been virtually attend. Half-century absence of people nearly destroyed all traces of their early stay. An extensive network of roads is almost absorbed by the forest, all the wooden buildings have disappeared. Major stone house officers hardly looks the failed roof of the high crown. Remained virtually unchanged after a half-century artillery positions, built of the strongest fortification of concrete. And the guns themselves, it seems untouched by time. Channels trunks filled with preservative grease, locks removed, traces of vandalism is not noticeable. I think intelligent artilleryman with a team of assistants could easily restore the battery to combat state. Behind the scenes flying hours on the island, it's time to gather in the back. Who knows, if happen to be once again on its shores …