Saturday, April 30, 2011

Visiting Solovki Islands. Travel Experience. Part2 - Sea Trip to Solovetsky

   As it has been mentioned in the previous part ships and motor boats sailing to Solovki from Kem usually leave Kem harbor in the morning. As for me I booked tickets for the motor ship "Vasily Kosyakov" with departure from Kem at 08:00.

Ships going from the karelian shore of the White sea cannot be called comfortable ones. Maybe due to the small distance and the time of sailing from the shore to Solovetsky archipelago, maybe due to lack of ships... ), I don't know. Larger ships are more comfortable than the smaller sea motor boats from point of view of the possibly stormy sea, but the motor boats can be considered enough safe for such trips, also.
Most comfortable ships, actually cruise ships, go to Solovki from Archangelsk.

The White sea is often misty in the morning and you won't see its splendid panoramas during the beginning of your sea trip to Solovetsky islands. I've "catched" the most interesting views on my way back, from the islands to Kem harbor.

View on the harbor of Kem and Rabocheostrovsk township

One of the motor boats sailing to Solovki islands

One of the first smaller islands of Solovetsky archipelago seen on the way from Kem

Islands of Kuzova archipelago

   Kuzova islands are covered by spruces (fir trees) - green color on the photo. The whole archipelago is a nature reserve.
   These photos were made on the way back to Kem, and as I've already mentioned in the previous part, it's worth taking a good binocular to view the panoramas of Kuzova and a good camera to make photos of these islands.

Again, a panorama of Kuzova islands


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