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Relacja angielskojęzyczna z trzech miesięcy podróży po zachodniej Kanadzie i Alasce – Góry Skaliste, bajeczna Kolumbia Brytyjska, gorączka złota w Jukonie i dzika Alaska.<br />www.roadtrip2007.prv.pl
Canada-Alaska 2007. Story of a Road Trip. Part IV - Alaska, Kenai Peninsula
W. Paczos2008-04-04 00:14:33
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had built so called Homer Split, a 2-mile long strech of land inside ocean waters to make water transport not dependend on tide level. There is a port at the end of the split with couple of nice cafes and pubs, among which the famous Salty Dog.
In Homer we tried to charter water taxi to take us across the inlet. But we also learned there is russian village at the end of the road, where somebody might be willing to take us across the inlet in a private boat much cheaper. Later it turned out that not only the tide was too low, but nobody would ever be willing to take us anywhere. Nevertheless a visit in Kachemak Selo and later in Nikolaevsk was a discovery of one of most amazing mysteries of Alaska - a community of Russian Oldbelievers.
In Homer, which is quite a town nowadays, some people know there is some russian village 40 miles further east. But you can hardly find anyone who's ever been there. Drivers could lift us only 5 miles before the village, where last Americans live. There are many pick-ups driven by young beautiful russian girls in long dresses going between Katchemak and a store, but they never pick hitch-hikers. As it was made clear we'll have to hike to the village, and was getting late we stopped for a night in Tracey's place. Earlier she gave us a ride and advised not to go to Katchemak. Tracey is a fairly good person, who loves people and helps whenever she can. But she simply hates Russians from Katchemak. She describes them as a hermetic sect, who hate people and drink tons of alkohol.
In the morning we were woken up by cock-crow. For breakfast we stole some eggs from chickencoop and went down to Katchemak Selo.
Oldbelievers is a belief which separated from Russian Orthodox Church back in 15th century. They claimed reforms in Orthodox Church were too liberal. In 1950s some Oldbelievers communites fleed from stalinist persecutions in USSR first to China, then to Brazil and Bolivia and finally to Oregon, USA. Early
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