A few cars stopped by to say hello and find our who we
were. Nice to have some people drop by.
Finally
got our single entry Ukraine visa around 12:30 via email so thought
we’d better drive on. It is valid from the 8th so we
have timed it nicely.
Not
a lot of different things to photograph so took some place names. The
long ones.
Sign entering the town
and
Sign exiting the town
50km/hr within the signs.
And yes I can read the signs...
Just
south of Stary Oskol we saw the sign of a huge open cut mine, and
heaps of the overburden.
The side of a big open cut mine.
One of the overburden piles from the mine
A
neat sculpture.
It
started to rain again. We turned off the highway towards a lake.
There was a small town but nowhere really nice to stop. We drove a
very muddy track to a dam wall or causeway. This also was very
muddy, not very wide, slippery, and a drop off on the either side.
Not far, just a couple of meters but we’d be well and truly there
till something large came along.
John
got us across safely, but still nowhere to camp. One spot had a dog
tied up so we turned left and the road out was closed with a gate. I
was just saying to john I’d go and ask at the building ahead but a
guy came out of his own accord and opened the gate for us. I was not
at all keen on going back across the causeway.
On
the map I noticed a small lake to the north and off a yellow road. So
we headed for that. In the dark it looked OK. The yellow road was
busier than we thought It might be. The little park was fenced off so
parked near the fence. Many cars came in to park during the night
and play loud music, but apart from that we were not bothered.