How many times have I already checked on myself that desires tend to come true! I wanted so badly to shoot the ice drift on the Sukhona in Veliky Ustyug that I ended up there. But this is not to go to a nearby store for bread - after all, 450 km!
And the most interesting thing is that I managed to pass along the Northern Dvina and Sukhona on a real icebreaker! True, the ship is very tiny, but it belongs to the icebreaker type.
We had to get out of the backwater of the shipyard into the open water area of the Northern Dvina River and go upstream along the Sukhona into the city of Veliky Ustyug.
After the passage of the ice drift, the ice was packed at the place of entry into the backwater and it had to be broken.
A hovercraft was passing by.
The hovercraft does not need to punch its way, and therefore it immediately entered the water area before us.
We quickly broke through the ice heaps and left the backwater.
The icebreaking vessel is very easy to operate.
Behind us there was a huge hangar for ship repair, converted into a sawmill.
And in front there were beautiful views of the monastery and the Yug River, which flows into the Sukhona.
The houses of the village of Kuzino are visible in the distance.
A few days ago a wooden apartment building burned down there, and this is not the first one this year. It's so good that I managed to capture them all in time. And how bad it is that this happens...
Having passed a little further upstream, views of another village of Koromyslovo began to open. A house once stood here at the confluence of rivers, but the bank was washed away and the house collapsed right into the river.
It is an interesting sensation to be in the middle of the river among the ice: as if you are sailing somewhere in the Arctic.
Occasionally, large ice floes float and break on the side of the ship.
The crossing from coast to coast is still closed, but people still come and watch, hoping to see the long-awaited ferry.
Such new and unusual sensations feed vital energy, expand consciousness and raise your vibration frequency.
To be continued...