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If you want to spend a weekend in the Ladoga skerries - it is best to go back on Thursday. Firstly, the places there are notable, and finding a good free place to set up camp is almost unrealistic. Secondly, in Karelia on Thursdays periodically “show” rainbows. Sometimes even double ones.

So, Thursday evening. The rain has just ended.

Fields glisten with myriad drops. And the pre-setting sun that has come to the promenade enhances this brilliance by a hundred times.

While we set sail, the sun is hiding behind the horizon. Cloud performance is incredibly dramatic. Such landscapes are best contemplated to the music of Richard Wagner. But we are accompanied only by the splash of water, and the roar of the outboard motor.

We leave in the open Ladoga. In the middle of summer, nights in the south of Karelia are still relatively bright. This is still not the end of July - I remember how a couple of years ago we walked in the darkness through the open Lake Ladoga to the touch, well, and we slipped through the skher we needed. The insight that we were sailing a little in the wrong direction came to us only when we sailed an extra four kilometers.

It’s good when you go to familiar places. The sky had not yet faded, and we had already found an excellent bay on Lapinsaari island with a view of the trout farm.

In ten minutes we set up camp and go to bed.

A new day begins.

We are sailing to the Jesususareth Archipelago (photo of the 2013 archipelago). On one of its islands, shortly before our visit, the film "Prohibition" was shot. In memory of this event, filmmakers left behind picturesque scenery.

All these buildings, including the church, are fake. They never existed on this island. And they are unlikely to stand for a long time - in less than a couple of years they will be dragged for firewood.

In the meantime, it’s interesting here. The church is as if real.

The decorative cemetery also looks unusually picturesque.

It’s true that crosses are standing on a bare rock - it’s not like a grave; here you torment a small hole to hollow out. But I already find fault with it ...

In the summer in the Ladoga skerries quite crowded. Yachts, kayaks, boats and other water equipment flicker here and there. But there is enough space for everyone - skerries stretch for more than 100 kilometers.

More than anything, I love rocky hanging ponds located above lake level.

Of course, it’s not at all necessary to wander back and forth along the ducts. You can just walk around the island on which our camp stands and enjoy the views.

Ruskeasaari Island.

The island of Louhisaari. I would venture to suggest that its name is connected with the old woman Louhi - the mistress of the distant northern country Pohjoly, mentioned in Kalevala. It is symbolic that the island is now crowned with an Orthodox cross.