Popov island

8:00

Departure on a cutter on the Popov island .

09:30

Arrival in a Starka bay.

09:30~10:00

Meeting of the group by employees of Institute of Sea Biology. Breakfast (tea, coffee with sandwiches)

10:00~13:00

Excursion on the coast of channel Starka with the visit of stand of ancient man and granodioritovoy stone (40 minutes). Bus excursion in north part of the Far-Eastern Marine preserve, botanical garden—cape of Likandera. An excursion acquaints with an unique island flora. by rare plants. added to the Red book.

13:00~14:00

Dinner is in the dining-room of building . “Sea nature and protection of it”

14:00~15:30

Excursion on a museum “Sea nature and protection of it”. Visit to paleovillage: dwelling of krounovskoy culture of 1 millennium to our era (suits. masks. sacral attributes of shamans. barn on piles. wooden veshalo for fishing nets, funeral cottage, sacral ground with the figures of spirits and sacred birds), an ethnographic area acquaints with the way of life hunters and fishermens from end of 19 ages to 20 ages.

15:30~18:00

Sea walk to the islands of Verkhovskogo and Karamzina (bird markets, place of nesting of birds: chistik point, baklan ussuriyskiy, murre, tupik-nosorog, a gull chernokhvostaya et all) Season of the active nesting—end of May—beginning of June.

Presence of birds on islands—from May for September.

18:00~19:30

A transition from the Popov island to Vladivostok.