We left Olkhon on Friday morning, as it was bright out we could see some of the island as we traveled to the ferry. We got there early, well maybe not as we didnt know what time the ferry was leaving at but we had to wait for about 30 minutes before we got on the ferry.
It wasn't too bad as we were entertained by some locals who were trying to take a boat from the lake. They had their boat trailer in the water and the boat mounted on it but they could not get the trailer out of the lake. The edge of the lake was frozen but not strong enough to hold the weird of their van so they had the boat trailer tied to the van by a long rope. The van appeared to have two speeds, full speed or stop. So he'd go full speed and the boat trailer would crash into the ice at the edge of the lake but it wouldn't get to the shore. This continued until the boat engine fell into the lake. I didn't take any photos as I figured they wouldn't be too happy about that.
Martin and I were saying to each other that they should get two planks of wood and use them as ramps to get the wheels of the trailer out of the ice. Eventually someone of them thought similar and arrived with two planks of wood but rather then use them as ramps he used them as wedges and tried to lift the trailer using them. It looked quite funny but after a few attempts it did work. Once the boat was out they celebrated with Vodka and then came over to start the ferry and take us to the mainland.
The lake had frozen considerably over the past few days so I took a short video of the ice breaking as we traveled across the lake but I can't upload it because of this proxy..
It wasn't too bad as we were entertained by some locals who were trying to take a boat from the lake. They had their boat trailer in the water and the boat mounted on it but they could not get the trailer out of the lake. The edge of the lake was frozen but not strong enough to hold the weird of their van so they had the boat trailer tied to the van by a long rope. The van appeared to have two speeds, full speed or stop. So he'd go full speed and the boat trailer would crash into the ice at the edge of the lake but it wouldn't get to the shore. This continued until the boat engine fell into the lake. I didn't take any photos as I figured they wouldn't be too happy about that.
Martin and I were saying to each other that they should get two planks of wood and use them as ramps to get the wheels of the trailer out of the ice. Eventually someone of them thought similar and arrived with two planks of wood but rather then use them as ramps he used them as wedges and tried to lift the trailer using them. It looked quite funny but after a few attempts it did work. Once the boat was out they celebrated with Vodka and then came over to start the ferry and take us to the mainland.
View from the boat of the frozen lake
The lake had frozen considerably over the past few days so I took a short video of the ice breaking as we traveled across the lake but I can't upload it because of this proxy..
More frozen lake
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