I like the sunset light in the Opoki – the yellowish-brown rocks turn into redder shades and become even more saturated.
Walking on heaped bricks and rock fragments is very uncomfortable.
And if the water level is high, then it will be completely impossible to walk along the shore.
In spring, the water comes close to the edge of the wall, thereby sharpening the shores.
Some pictures show that the slope is cut off closer to the bottom, replaced by a vertical wall.
This is the result of exposure to ice floes during an ice drift.
It is almost impossible to climb such a wall – it is a real rock.
On the opposite shore there is a fountain – a self-emptying well drilled by geologists in 1941.
In general, there was once an Opokstroy camp in Opoki in 1943-1947.
Here, prisoners built a dam and a lock to bypass the threshold by ships.
But the result was sad, not to mention the hundreds of dead prisoners: another ice drift demolished everything that had been built with backbreaking labor.
The project was closed, nature could not be deceived ...
That's unconquered centuries-old layered walls stand...
Enough about the sad stuff. I reached the mouth of the Strelna River, which also has steep high banks.
Strelna is still full of water and it is not yet possible to ford it. So I went back.
Were you walking barefoot? Haha. Only yesterday I was hiking over rocks thinking it was a nice massage for the feet!