If you use your imagination the Island Sakhalin looks a little like a fish.
The tail is just above the northern most Japanese Island, Hokkaido. The main city in Sakhalin is Yusno Sakhalinsk and along with the disputed Kuril group of islands is the most Eastern Russian territory.

I went to the island on six occasions;
- twice in the spring when the ice and snow was beginning to thaw, and
- four times in the fall, when the Autumn leaves were golden and falling and when the very first snow of the winter was due to arrive.
Rob