Pakri Cape, Page I

- These five pages of pictures is a miscellaneous collection of places and things to see in Pakri Cape. This is not a complete visit to the area, as we only walked the West shore of the Pakri Cape. In the East side is some remnants from the Leetse Manor and a Leetse - Lepiku farm cemetery. Also some remains from a Soviet missile base are supposedly located on the East shore of Pakri Cape.

- But the West side of the area contains also a lot to see. If you follow the shoreline from Paldiski, the first thing you will notice are the huge pits in the ground. This is the place where Tsar Peter I started to build his fortification and a naval base in 1718. The plan was to build a fortification with five bastions and a breakwater which would connect the Pakri islands to the mainland. The construction effort earned the nickname: Siberia II, as so many forced labourers were used. It was difficult to cut through the limestone and when Peter I died in 1725, the Peter's Fortress was still uncompleted and was abandoned.

- Continuing your way towards the tip of the Pakri Cape, you will come across the very small bunker which is shown in the first picture. The West shore most likely has contained a huge amount of these tiny bunkers or observation posts, as there's tens and tens of pits in the ground. The scene is really similar to the Harparskog-line in Hanko Cape, where the dugout remains form a similar pits to the ground, now that the woods have decayed. Continuing forward, you will notice "rooms", underground without a roof. From some of these, a trench line leaves and connects other "rooms" in the area. Near of these positions is most likely remains from a coastal battery positions. The battery positions and these "rooms" connected with trenches, do not seem to date from the time of the cold war, when looking the construction. I would assume that these date from the time of the First World War and are related to the Naval Fortress of Peter the Great. The construction is just so similar.

- Reaching the tip of the Pakri Cape, there is the lighthouse and right next to it, is a massive remain from a bunker or an coastal artillery position. Hard to say anymore, as it has been blown to pieces. The base for the cannon however is still visible. The tip of the cape contains also other ruins, which are very visible from the main road.

- There's really so much to see, that it's hard to say from where to begin...