‘There is something about a forest that compels introspection…’ Eloise J. Roorbach, Overland Monthly, October 1907
Island in the Moscow River (Russia)
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‘There is something about a forest that compels introspection…’ Eloise J. Roorbach, Overland Monthly, October 1907
Island in the Moscow River (Russia)
From a friend, who finds such items: “Have you ever wanted to walk across the bottom of the River, Lake or Ocean to see all the ships that have sunk? Well…. The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest saline body of water. It has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. And now it’s almost gone leaving a desert full of old shipwrecks.” Is recovery likely?
Ships High and Dry Aral Sea
Camels seeking shelter near dry boat
Tenkara in Siberia presents many beautiful images. It is written in Russian, but I did not feel the need to translate at this point. I was content, as you might be, to peruse the site and take in the imagery. I am fairly noncommittal about the Tenkara fascination. I get the short line, intimate, minimalist concept. I love many of the fly pattern concepts and think them more than worthy to ‘traditional’ fly fishing presentations. Give Tenkara in Siberia a visit and enjoy the effort. It you are totally into Tenkara traditions then you will enjoy the site, if you don’t already visit it. Get your translation tools out. Also, here is an additional piece re joining the lines used in Tenkara from Troutrageous.
Lake Lahotan (Western Nevada) the Salton Sea set in the green basin of Southern California now
There is some interesting history about ancient lakes that dried up over the course of thousands of years. Currently, the Salton Sea, Aral Sea, Mono Lake are examples of lakes that are reportedly shrinking and providing alarming concerns about the man made and natural chemical’s airborne dust possibly causing illness and cancer risks. I am hesitant to use the might’s, could’s and maybe’s re eco disaster. But, there are some substantive studies in Russia re the Aral Sea (which was the fourth biggest lake in the world…no more) and cancers/birth defects. Of particular importance here, is the Salton Sea. Lake Lahotan was a different story but equally fascinating. (Also, see Land Art) (Salton Sea & Dust/Wind Pollutants)
This a very interesting site, The Salmon Atlas, that has a world wide mapping system, showing the different salmon and sea trout. The usual save the salmon awareness links and habitat threats are carried as well. Also, The Atlantic Salmon Reserve is an instructive site.
A humorous piece about a man with aerophobia, who has the Russian train system figured out..sort of:
“By the way, you will probably be waited on by a very young and good-looking waitress wearing a lot of cheap makeup. When not busy at the restaurant, she makes rounds of the train with a food trolley loaded with beer, peanuts and Snickers bars. She has to be good looking because it improves sales. With their caked-on makeup, dining car waitresses look like moderately expensive rural town call-girls. This adds a little subconscious eroticism to the restaurant visit.”
“Speaking of eroticism, I’ve encountered some really well-made Russian porn movies where all the action took place on a train. Since then, I have often fantasized about being accidentally put into the luxury compartment with a horny model. It’s never happened.”
Russia With Kamchatka to the ???
A question for the well traveled fly fisher…or adventurer sans rod? Why in so many websites when one queries ‘Western Russia Fly Fishing’ do 99% of the sites refer to Kamchatka as Western Russia? Now if I look at a map, I would deem Western Russia to abut the Ukraine, Belarus, Finland etc. and Kamchatka to be to the extreme far East. Perhaps I am missing something here, where some line of demarcation exists that determines when the geography flips and East becomes West. So, when I have tried to research fly fishing opportunities, I have found a site or two for Ponoi and waters near Finland…otherwise…the compass uncontrollably spins.
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