Oto in Motherland: a (huge) photo log

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:44 pm

For reasons I don’t recall, we called this the Elephant Rock. It’s about 8m/20ft tall

Probing the crack of the Elephant Rock

My Fast Rowboat parked next to the Elephant Rock

Elephant Rock from another angle

Rocks at the edge of a forest

*to be continued*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:45 pm

Reeds

Probing water clarity

I actually did research on this lake’s ecological back in the day. Serious business, actually, not your average school project.
Interesting Oto fact:
Oto took 2nd place in St. Petersburg School Biology Contest for the project he did on this lake. It’s a huge contest, given the size of the city.

Fast Rowboat charges ahead

Oto admires nature

Oto has become one with nature

*to be continued*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:47 pm

Back at the dacha, Fast Rowboat parked

Neighbour’s table

The ladder into nowhere

Oto chilling on the pier

Water weeds

*to be continued*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:47 pm

A funky waterside bench installed by one of our neighbours

My grandfather in his natural habitat

Wading through water lilies

2nd Big Lake

And this is as close as you get to Oto naked

*to be continued*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:49 pm

Sailing on to distant lakes

This is the 4th Big Lake, I think

Oto pondering the meaning of big lakes

Island in a distant lake

Time for reconnaissance!

*to be continued*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:51 pm

On an uninhabited island

…at least I think it’s uninhabited

Oto – going proudly… into nowhere?

Quite the pose I struck there

Reflecting sun

*to be continued*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:51 pm

Maneuvering past yet more uninhabited islands

Evening sun

Forest

Fast Rowboat’s wake

*to be continued*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:52 pm

Fast Rowboat’s stern

Smooth waters on approach back to inhabited islands

Backyard

This is the bathhouse

Not just any bath, the famed Russian steam bath, Banya

Various structures and Kuzya, the stereotypical fat cat

*to be continued*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:52 pm

Dacha

This is the washroom, rather the outhouse

Yes, this is where you go for those needs

Packages of self-grown onions

Pier at the far end of the island

“The morning after”

eh?

*to be continued*

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:52 pm

More incomprehensible structures

Oto at the washing-sink mirror

No running water here, by the way. You wash with water from the lake and drink water from a well!

A horizontal (?) smokestack

Another pier

Boat in the reeds

*to be continued*