The most western point of the Crimean Peninsula - Cape Cape Tarkhankut. As elsewhere in the rocks of the Crimea, look here fascinate cliffs, caves, underwater world, where “feed” diver of all ages, colors and nationalities.

Then relax as “mere mortals”, and marine scientists engaged in studying this, the most ecologically clean the Black Sea.
Cape Tarkhankut love film. At Cape Priboynom film, once known throughout the country: «Dreams of Green», «People and Dolphins», «Peter Pan», «Pirates of the XX century», «Man-Amphibian». Here was the spectacle of wild indomitable sea, awesome people since ancient times.

This place attracts all to itself. Here the bright sun, the water is warming up in July and August to 28 degrees, and its transparency is such that it allows for competition in underwater photography.

The topography of coastline is extremely unusual. Here, and cozy coves, caves and golden sandy beaches. The air smells brings steppe and lemon wormwood, which will allow you to forget about the cold in all winter long.
Wind wanderings, which blows at Cape Tarkhankut pozovet sure you not only for the adventure, but also on the Cape Tarkhankut again and again.

Tavrika has an ancient history and many legends. For example, it is believed that “Tavrika” comes from people’s brand, whose king Herodotus called Toasa, and he lived in about 1250 BC

Tavrika - a country of brand and name of the southern coast of Crimea, this has yet old Ellina. In the era of the early Middle Ages (before 15 century) the name used for the whole of Crimea, and later changed to the word of the language of the Crimean Tatars.

Tavrika has an ancient history and many legends. For example, it is believed that “Tavrika” comes from people’s brand, whose king Herodotus called Toasa, and he lived in about 1250 BC In addition, Tavrida lived Cimmerians and the strait between Tavrida and Taman, who then called Sindico, in antiquity known as the Cimmerian Bosporus.

Cimmerians had been driven from the east came the Scythians in 8. BC, and another one hundred years, some 7 th century BC here were based Greek colonies, which affects all the coast, including the Scythians. Highlighting the Chersonese and Pantikapaion, two Greek city-republic subdued through poltysyacheletiya, in the first half of 1 BC king of Pontus Mithridates Yevpatoriya. Since then Pantikapaion Bosporan became the capital of the kingdom. But not for long. After Pompey Bosporus went to Rome in obedience and further history Tavrida simply disappears. During the great migration of peoples there lived many people. In the 3 rd century, the peninsula is subordinated gotam, then they do crowd out the Huns, and in the 7-8 centuries AD Tavrida mastered the Khazars. Those most, who fought with the prophetic Oleg.

They came and Polovci Pechenegs and traded everything, everything, down to the slaves. Facilitators were genueztsy that to the 12 century, spread widely in the Crimea. However, after the conquest of Khan Batyi Russia, Crimea came under the authority of the Tartars, genueztsy were expelled and the whole future history of Tavrida - the history of the Golden Horde and the breakaway from the Crimean Khanate.

As it is divided vertically into three layers: the upper, middle and bottom. At the bottom layer of life, because from the surface of the seabed allocated poisonous hydrogen sulfide.

Black Sea at all times of the Russian state was a favorite place for its residents. This is understandable, because this rare summer storm, there is almost no hazard to humans of marine animals, the sea is a small and malosolenoe because it runs on several large freshwater rivers and many smaller, but it is quite good “holds” on the surface, so good here learn to dive and the first to discover the wonders of underwater world. As it is divided vertically into three layers: the upper, middle and bottom.

At the bottom layer of life, because from the surface of the seabed allocated poisonous hydrogen sulfide. In addition to individual species of bacteria, the absence of oxygen does not withstand even the deep-sea fish. The upper layer is believed to extend to a depth of 40-60 m and is subject to strong seasonal fluctuations in temperature. In winter, it reaches up to 7 C and 24 C in summer, off the coast of the Caucasus as the sea and is already warming up to 30C and is best suited for family holidays with children.

With increasing depth of water temperature fluctuations are reduced, so that at a depth of 40 m in winter temperature is 8 C and 11 C in summer, and the middle layer has a lower salinity than the lower hydrogen sulphide. It extends to a depth of 100-140 meters, after which begins this cold. Hour the temperature is 6-8 degrees.

Black Sea, as is known, an internal sea, which means that it is surrounded by land and through the Dardanelles strait connects with the Mediterranean Sea.

The climate on the coast of the Azov Sea much softer and warmer, and the water cleaner. It sea is very shallow and warm, so with the children there is so much easier.

With the onset of summer in old times the whole country has sought to the south to the Black Sea. Black Sea and is now popular, but in those days, and in the present, few people know that quite a number are much more pleasant place for family holidays - Sea of Azov. The climate on the coast of the Azov Sea much softer and warmer, and the water cleaner.

It sea is very shallow and warm, so with the children there is so much easier. Across the coast spread vast sandy beaches. Water has a very useful set of trace elements in some places, there are healing waters and mud, were the basis for the preferred resort in Soviet times. Now all along the coast many hotels and holiday homes, camp sites and a cozy cottages for everyone there to relax. By the way, if you think that the Azov - a paradise for the mother with children, you are mistaken. There has always been an excellent fishing, but by the number and diversity of fish species of no other place in the world simply do not. The ancient Greeks and Scythians called the Sea Meatidoy ( “mother”) or Kargulakom ( “a place rich in fish). The fish here is simple, any - of the known world Azov sturgeons to young bulls, descending into the mouth of the rivers to spawn.

Spa towns and villages form a continuous ring, so to come to the Sea of Azov at any place, but we call basic: Berdyansk, New Yalta, Genichesk, Melekino, Urzuf, Belosarayskaya Spit, Bezymennoe, Shchelkine (Cape Kazantip) Sedov, Kirillovka, Taganrog, Eisk and etc.

In my opinion, you have to be collected in the road, huh?

He always has a chance to risk their scientific credibility. In seeking to explain the unexplained, he often makes a rather risky hypothesis, causing the attacks and even ridicule. However, because the dethronement and false hypothesis - a step forward compared with the omission of a lazy mind.

Sanderson once saw unknown monster in the waters of the African rivers. Not far from the boat vzdybilos something huge and revom plyuhnulos back. A zoologist brilliantly-etched black head, like a seal, but the size of an adult hippopotamus.
- Mkuum-Bemba! - Africans cried out in horror and fell to the bottom of the boat.
They are very scared, but not very surprised. The beast was familiar to them. According to them, these animals have long found here. The animal, whose name appears at the Sanderson heard from Africans, conducted in a lake in the Congo. This mokele-Mbemba, a well-known to local residents.

The first expedition to search for it was filled back in 1913, but the war interrupted her. The expedition was able only to record the stories of Africans on the animal the size of an elephant with a mobile neck, and a strong tail, similar to the tail of a crocodile.

Hiking to the lake is already in the seventies of our century have made three expeditions: the French, American and American-Congolese.

The first proper Congolese expedition in 1983 led a Biologist Anyanya, a graduate of the University of Havana. She arrived in those places where people only recently seen the mysterious creature, with fierce breaks revom trees. Anyanya made copies and photos of his footprints. He picked up a few pieces of dust, with a bronze tint, leather. However, the mokele-Mbemba before the expedition, very difficult to break hard to the lake, and did not appear.
Only on the last day …

Accompanied Anyanya Africans excited zasheptali, pointing to the dark surface of the water: “Look at this! Look at this!”
“It was something with the ophidian head on long neck.

Anyanya rushed forward in shallow water, lovya creature in the camera viewfinder. The film quickly end. Then the biologist has been looking through a strong lens. He saw the black, the sun shining on the back of the head, smooth brown neck and a broad trehmetrovuyu back.

Being at the approach of people slowly immersed. Only the head and neck for some time above the surface about meter. Then the head disappeared.
Anyanya rushed to the camp, shells, and the boat went to the place of the meeting. Water has been fixed. Monster disappeared. Biologist has been cautious in the conclusions. As the magazine “Knowledge - force”, he only admitted that mokele-Mbemba roughly corresponds to our perception of a brontosaurus …

Traces of the same “trehpalogo” as found Sanderson, met on the shores of New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia and tridevyat land from them, in one of the islands off the coast of the USA and later in Florida. They left on shelf out of the water a huge creature. In addition trehpalyh prints two paws remained deep lanes, which were similar to the trace of a heavy tail.
Such traces might belong … dinosaurs!

Perhaps, said Sanderson, the so-called terrestrial dinosaurs lived there, like the fact, seen in Africa, coastal swamps and rivers, took to the sea shore, and gradually learned the new elements? Seventy - Eighty million years - enough time to fully adapt to the marine environment.

Sanderson did not insist that a mysterious “trehpaly” necessarily “neodinozavr. But, he observes, “the fact that no dinosaur still alive no one has so far not seen, yet does not prove that they do not exist.”
And Sanderson, like many, again refers to the “extinct” One hundred million years ago, a contemporary of dinosaurs, kisteperuyu fish, or tselakanta, who in 1938 appeared in person - a healthy, not fossil. ” Is still do not live in many places all known next of kin and age of dinosaurs - Ordinary crocodiles?

Legends of the sea snakes, one generation of seamen transferred to another three thousand years ago, with almost all the seas and oceans. These monsters seen on the road to the ice in Greenland and in the warm waters of Polynesia. Witnesses whose testimony had become fairly well write about a hundred years ago, told of a monster, coming from a high speed and at a few meters, rises above the water zmeeobraznuyu neck with a head like the head of a dragon. In the top of the similarities, it is razevalo, then shut down fall with terrible jaws.

Unlike many other cases of mysterious creatures, there are no witnesses were single, and commands the ships, there are tens and hundreds of people. A case in which the passengers in front of the ocean vessel monster attacked the small boat and overturned it. It happened in the seventies of the last century, when, unlike today, loose strap a camera was not a constant companion nearly every traveler and tourist.

However, this age is not a poor facts. In 1947, for example, marine snake hit the ship “Santa Clara”, and in 1964 two diver was able to make pictures of a wounded beast, selected on the shallow water.

Then swept by the light striking the news: Japanese fishermen catch of sea snake and the dead, it seems, he was … plesiosaurus! Again, a guest from an infinitely distant past: this type of giant pangolin is considered to be extinct a hundred million years ago.
Unfortunately, the corpse spread. In tropical waters preserve finder could not be identified. Remains monster raised deck trawler “Dzuyomaru, photographed, measured and … thrown overboard.

Riddle and has remained a mystery. One can only argue who is right: there are scientists who do not doubt that the network is raised to the surface plesiosaurus, or who assumes that the focus should be on the remains of a gigantic seal, who met in the waters of the world around twenty million years ago. And perhaps the truth on the side of the skeptics who claim that corruption, as many are no longer part of the torso, could turn into “plesiosaurus” the corpse of a big shark?

It seems none the mysterious substance has not been a truly world-wide fame as a Nessy. You probably also heard about a “Loch Ness monster”, and therefore limit the shortest help.

Lake Loch Ness in Scotland, like a romantic legend: the ruins of a medieval castle, mountains of dark coniferous forests, gloomily sky and frequent fog.

This lake is known, it seems, almost everything. We know that the length of forty kilometers, the width of an average of about two places in the depth of over three hundred meters, the bottom of granite with deep cracks and caves, as well as remnants of ancient buildings that were once located on the banks, and later sank. Known properties of local waters, of which one is extremely upsetting to everyone interested in discovering secrets Loch Ness: the water color like strong tea, and the transparency of its minuscule.

First polulegendarnye news that the Loch Ness elected their residence underwater monster, refer to the VI century BC. Since the thirties of this century, has accumulated more than four thousand testimonies of people who saw it. Filled with dozens of expeditions for the discovery. It has been photographed.

And it is still not found, although at present there started in the course of recent technological innovations, ranging from small submarines, underwater camera and projectors, electronic sensors and so-called sonar, sending pulses of water and they “feel” everything that is in the lake or on its bottom.

The search was not fruitless.
Sonar has been found in deep water some large moving objects. Does this mean that they actually managed to catch the traffic monster, known worldwide for tender named Nessy? Disclosure of the secrets of nature requires tremendous effort, perseverance, ability to cope with frustration and a thousand times recheck the facts.

In essence, what the Loch Ness? The relatively small body of water in the ancient and densely populated European countries. Apart from the expeditions are seeking Nessy employs a lot of fanatics. Some of them even settled on the lake shore. With the world’s tourists come here with hope: what if they are lucky? And this interest is not always disinterestedness, because of proof of the existence of Nessy announced a big cash prize.

But if such a complex and lengthy searches for the lake were in Scotland, what to say then about the Himalayas and the Pamirs, on the deep ocean, on lakes in the cold of Yakutia, which also saw the strange animal, the impassable swamps and tropical forests! What can be done tremendous work there to be able to firmly say “yes” or “no”!

So far, the response of the world did not hear from researchers and Loch Ness. You can take a typical view of an eminent paleontologist, having examined the results of the sonar:
- We can no longer have to pretend that it is a myth or legendary creature. Something, it seems, lives in the lake, but we do not know what kind of beast.

And if that “something” would be reptiles resembling plesiosaurus extinct, it will, perhaps, even change the attitudes of scientists and exciting to the problem of the fantastic to the present day large animals left outside the purview of science.

There were, of course, and other witnesses. There are some photos Nessy, however, no more distinct than the long-known. The difference is that in one picture in the predawn fog can be vaguely discerned something like the outline of three “monsters”. Doubles Nessy allegedly seen at a northern Swedish lakes and even in several places.

A mkuum-Bemba, also known as “mokele-Mbemba?
See a close, it is of “poluslona-poludrakona also failed. The expedition of scientists going to the Congo, has found only traces of the strange, and with them the vegetation looked as though it hurt his tail huge reptile. Regasters American traveler assured that he and his several meetings in the jungles of Congo unknown beast roar of which was recorded on tape. Scientists who listened to it and compare it with the help of special equipment with the voices of all the African animals, acknowledged that the roar belongs unknown substance.

Enthusiasts continue to search for, seek rede mysterious and unknown. Few said a categorical “no.” Maybe from the indisputable judgments warns all the same old top tselakant, alive suddenly appeared from stomillionoletney given shocks to our contemporaries?