The way to the White Sea. Rafting on the Keret River

The route for today: Lake. New — pore. Dry — pore. Krivoy-2 — oz. Crooked — pore. A long time. Varatsky Lake. Varatskoye, 28 km. 

Based on the conditions of the route, there is a hot lunch or snack on the way.

We're waking up. 

We are doing exercises, so bring the perfect soundtrack! 

Cheered up? Let's have breakfast. 

It's time to pack up the camp and hit the road. 

We recall yesterday's instructions from the instructors, we try to improve the rowing technique.

We try to walk smoothly along Lake Novoe, pass the threshold of Sukhoi, sail past a small village and a railway bridge. 

We are waiting for 5 km of the reach (a section of the river with or without a calm current). 

We pass the threshold of the Curve, which flows into the lake Curve.

Two more rapids — Long and Varatsky — and we go out into Lake Varatskoye. 

We sail along the lake slowly — we need to choose a parking place. 

And no matter what! 

Tomorrow is the day, so we choose a secluded, quiet, calm place and definitely pleasant to the eye.

Today, you don't have to worry about tomorrow's early rise, because we have a day! 

So you can stay by the campfire all night. 

Today is a day at Lake Varatskoye, which means that there is no need to take off the camp, there is no need to hurry anywhere. 

We relax, play active games, pick berries, mushrooms or herbs for tea, swim and enjoy the views.

Instructors always have ideas of a cool pastime in stock, it remains only to choose!

And today we will definitely flood the bathhouse.

Compact, quickly assembled in the field, a tourist bath is the best way to relieve fatigue during a hike. 

"Bath procedures" smooth out the effect of high doses of adrenaline, relax muscles, and relieve tension perfectly.

Today we are going along the following route: Lake. Varatskoye is a port. Kareshka — pore. Red—fast - pore. Oil, 15 km. 

Based on the conditions of the route, there is a hot lunch or snack on the way.

Today we pass exciting rapids — Kareshka (1-2 k.s.), Krasnobystry (3 k.s.) and Oil (2-3 k.s.). 

We walk through the lakes, stop in good weather to swim. 

We set up a camp on one of the shores, cook dinner, and remember how this day went. 

Those who participate in such a hike for the first time can now tell the difference between thresholds and shivers without any problems. Isn't that right? 

Tomorrow we will go out to the White Sea!

We wake up, warm up, have breakfast and hit the road again. 

Now our group consists of several experienced crews, because yesterday we passed the test of the Varatsky threshold. 

Today's route: por. Pavlovsky — por. Kolupaevsky — por. Curve-3 — pore. Morskoy — Oleniy Island, 29 km. 

We pass the thresholds of Pavlovsky (2 k.s.), Kolupaevsky (2-3 k.s.) and Krivoy (3 k.s.). 

The Keret River ends at the Sea threshold (2 k.s.). 

Fish nets, fish pens and metal cables are installed in front of it across the river of the local fisheries, so we unload the catamarans, carry them along the shore and return to the water to roll down the threshold of the Sea directly into the bay of the White Sea.

Here it is, the sea. The northern nature enchants with tides, sea smell, surf, winds and calm, islands, stone foreheads, salt water.

If we have time, we will dock to the shore for lunch. 

We will spend the night on one of the islands of the White Sea — Oleniy. 

The road to it already lies through the White Sea, so we gather after lunch, stock up on fresh water and keep warm so as not to freeze during the transition.

Here we have dinner and relax after a busy day.

Today we have a day on the island of Deer in the White Sea.

What do we usually do during the Day?! We rest, of course. 

You can go explore the island where we stopped: on foot by land or on catamarans by water. 

The underwater world of the White Sea is rich and peculiar. 

The surface of the rocks is covered with soft corals and sea anemones, starfish, ophiura, crabs and shrimps crawl between the stones. 

Of the fish, there are catfish, sea bass, flounder, kerchak, beldyuga, maslyuk and pinogor fish. 

To spy on life underwater, it is not even necessary to have special equipment, since the water here is very transparent — no one will hide from our inquisitive gaze.

We definitely swim, sunbathe, arrange high-speed races in the sea, build sand castles and take test photos to remember our adventure. 

We can go in search of berries again to cook compote, add to tea, or just eat.

And again we heat the bathhouse, for which we can prudently stock up on birch brooms during the exploration of the island.

The last morning of our journey. 

Let's not be sad, let's be glad that such an adventure happened to us! 

We have free time after breakfast. 

Before lunch, you can take another walk around the island, pack your things, or go swimming and sunbathe, if the weather permits. 

After lunch, we collect all the equipment, load the catamarans and go by sea to the village of Nizhnyaya Pulonga. 

Here on the shore we are met by an old Pomeranian ship, the karbas.

We disassemble catamarans, load into buses.

On the way to the Chupa station, we will have time to go to the store to buy a snack on the way.

From Chupa station, we go home by night trains (we recommend train No. 15A).