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lost pier

Located at the Baltic Sea, this old pier is almost gone now. An old fisherman still comes here every morning with his horse. The horse s left to eat, while the fisherman checks his nets.

The pier was build a long time ago. During the Soviet period, the beach was the border, and after the Cuba crises, it was closed from sunset till dawn.
Fishing activities were concentrated in harbors, and places like this lost it's function.

In the evening, tractors would make grooves in the sand, and in the morning soldiers inspected the beach for signs of people crossing the beach.

There is another pier near Limbazi, and maybe even more . . .

this is part of small serie about the Latvian coast, and how the fishing ‘industry’ evolved over a century;
the old man and the sea
soviet planning
engure harbor
harbor office – question photoshop

PS2;
crop, small color corrections, resizing, added the border slight sharpening and finally added the text.

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