Frozen St. Petersburg, and the locals do a spot of ice fishing.
Good idea to park the Lada when you’re fishing, wonder what insurance policy covers sinking due to cracked ice?
The ice smashed up from all the shipping traffic. The tiny black dots in the centre are people fishing a few feet away from our wash. People get their danger fix up here too……….
Above the cargo ship Canterbury Star, classic lines, below the Ice Breaker Mudyug clears the fairway.
A throwback to the bad old days, the mad thing was that there was a guy with binoculars, AK-47 and radio in that tower 24 hours a day, I don’t know what he was doing, maybe the Soviets forgot about him and he’s just working away?
Doing our own ice breaking on the way out from Russia
two things come to mind, and a seastory:
1: dayam, that looks cold. it’s a nice balmy 70 degF here in northern california right now.
2: danger fix? those folks are just crazy.
seastory: we pulled into pearl harbor in the early 70’s. as we were transiting the channel, we passed quite a few small boats with fishermen. i don’t recall even seeing one fisherman look up as a long deadly nuclear powered attack submarine went sailing by.
guess it’s all in what you are used to.
Hi Bothenhook, It was pretty cold, but not so bad that the deck equipment froze up, around 30F or -1C as we say here!
Today its a bit milder in the North Sea we are up in the late 40’s on the F scale, nowhere near the weather you’ve got.
The sea pilot in Russia had his own anti cold remedy, vodka he was stinking, but not falling down drunk, its fairly normal there.
The fishing Russians looked up at us, and even waved back suspiciously when I gave a wave, they were probably thinking crazy Swede, makes me laugh, the Swedes don’t wave at each other! bit of Irish humour.
Haven’t seen a real life Nuclear Attack sub, only on tv, I’d be looking for sure!