Typhoon Bolaven led to
significant disruption in the Far East of Russia this week - closing bridges,
downing power cables, halting ferries, briefly causing delays on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, and damaging some property.
But then - as these
extraordinary pictures showed - it washed up a feast of delicious sea food on beaches
in Lazurnaya Bay.
On the morning of 31 August
the popular Shamora beach close to Vladivostok was literally teeming with
thousands upon thousands of molluscs and crabs, most of them very tasty
ones.
'Now we know what 'manna from
heaven' means,' wrote a local girl Svetlana in her blog.
'And this is at Shamora where
for the last 30 years there was nothing else edible but shashlyk ( barbecue )
.'
Dozens of beach-side cafes now
had something else to cook. Swarms of locals hurried to the beach to collect
tasty seafood for the weekend.
Almost all the shellfish were
alive but it was useless to carry them back to the sea - the storm-powered
waves threw them back on the beach again almost immediately. People had
nothing else to do but to collect them to cook for a free lunch - or take nice
pictures with beautiful big crabs.
Some locals brought their
rubber boats and entertained their children making pools with live molluscs.
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