For many years of working as a photojournalist in the Vologda region, I visited the island of Spas-Kamenny, which is located in Kubensky Lake, for the first time. I will not describe the history, I will only share my impressions.

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I've been wanting to get here since I found out about this place, but I've only managed to go now. It was a folklore festival.
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Expectations: a magical mystical place with a cosmic landscape all around.
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Reality: bad luck with the weather... You need to go to Spas-Kamenny either in complete calm with beautiful clouds, or in a thunderstorm. It was the most unfortunate state of the sky and the water surface that I expected.
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The place is really cosmic, as if you are on another planet.
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It takes about forty minutes to get here by boat from the village of Ustye. By motorboat, I think it will be faster. There were years when you could drive here by car...but this is rare.
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The island, measuring only 80 by 160 meters, seems large. I was expecting a smaller area.
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I don't know how I would have told you about the monastery on the island in the lake without the colorful participants of the festival.
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The photo essay turned out to be very good, but I didn't make any postcard views.
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Even the famous sandbank that runs from the monastery to the shore was not visible.
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In general, from the first time, the conditions for an interesting trip to the island became clear to me – this is the off-season.
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It is very difficult to get here in spring, but in autumn there will be beauty.
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Would I want to come here again? Yes rather than no.
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I felt the potential of the place in terms of sensations and possible images.
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I was just unlucky with the weather...Besides, I was burned in two hours on the island.
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...There is a legend that you need to bring a stone with you to the island so that it does not disappear. I brought a few because I was planning (as a rock collector) to find something on the island and take it with me.
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The experienced ones say: bring a stone and take away the garbage!
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In general, if I have the opportunity to visit again, then I will definitely go!
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Bless and keep!