
Kamchatka
A journey from the Arctic Circle in Chuchotka, Far Eastern Russia, along the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula via the Commander Islands. This vast Siberian wilderness is very sparsely populated and has a harsh climate, with an 8-9 month winter. The North is tundra, gradually giving way to light forest in the South. This is the land of salmon, of big fat brown bears, volcanoes, wild rivers and won…
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Fishing in Kamchatka
Kamchatka bear. Olga Bay. Eastern Siberia. Salmon spawning season. This is a remote, uninhabited stretch of coast. After a zodiac landing I had walked about 10 kilometers in welington boots along a beach covered in bear footprints, then through a forest and river. We were about to turn back when this bear came along the shore, entered the river, and started fishing, about 15 meters away.
Ruins in autumn tundra
Medney Island. Commander Islands, Kamchatka, Russia. This is a now uninhabited island in the Bering Sea...this town was demolished and abandoned, with the population relocated to the bigger Bering Island. The ruins are eerily silent.
Egvekinot church
Chuchotka, on the Arctic Circle in the Russian Far East. The village was a centre for shipping of prisoners into the gulags to work in the isolated.mines.
Tundra vole (microtus oeconomus)
In the foliage near the shore line. Bering Island. Kamchatka, Siberia. I almost walked on the poor thing.....it just sat there to be photographed!
Aleutian Islands
Medney Island. Russia....Kamchatka. This is an uninhabited island, with just tundra, wildlife, and an old demolished village.
Precariously perched
Cormorant rookery. Commander Islands. Kamchatka, Russia. Photographed from a bouncing zodiac.
J'étais dans un petit bateau de caoutchouc rebondissant comme Un bouchon......a rubber zodiac. Ce sont des rochers en plein mer.
These are isolated rocks at the end of a tiny island.
A distant shore
Olga Bay. Kamchatka, Siberia. The only inhabitants are Kamchatka bears, Arctic foxes and salmon.
Juvenile Arctic fox....in the wild
No crop. On uninhabited Medney Island in the Bering Sea. It was very unafraid, curious and playful. It came and nibbled my boot and my trousers as I sat very still on the beach.
Steller's Sea Eagle
Largest of all sea eagles. Photographed from a zodiac on a river in Kamchatka, Siberia. Russian Far East. This was very early morning...sunrise.
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