With a superficial look at the summer tundra, it may seem that this place is very boring. The eye has nothing to cling to. And long walks in such a place will be very dull, moving from one green hill to another, seeing the same hills around.
However, it is worth taking the first step these green waves. After all, these vast expanses and the ocean have more in common than you might think.
They amaze with their boundlessness and monotony and are also a little repulsive, but at the same time each of them hides so many amazing little things in itself that it forms a separate world inside our world. Bright corals, amazing living creatures, underwater rivers, volcanoes and everything you can imagine are hidden under the water column. And the summer tundra also has its own islands of wonders that will open up to you if you dive a little deeper.
Delicate inflorescences, modest in their splendor and variegation, but no less beautiful than their southern counterparts. Here they can really resemble bright corals, and sometimes even form whole reefs of flowers.
This is not surprising. You will almost not find here single flowers who compete with their fellows and try to surpass each other. The North unites, coexistence increases the chances of survival and reproduction, which is why almost all the flowers here stick together.
Undoubtedly, there are loners, but these are true Northerners. Like a little cloudberry that likes to grow in flocks, but with a personal space. Nature has endowed her with a duvet for the flowering period.
Some prefer not to try their luck once again and huddle only in secluded burrows, among flat stones. Others, on the contrary, are ready to expose their seeds to the fierce wind to spread over these green hills.
Suddenly, on the clear horizon line, you may notice a lonely cobblestone, the size of a passenger car. His presence in this flat world raises a lot of questions. It was as if some giant was throwing stones around…
This is close to the truth. After all, this area is so flat for a reason, many epochs ago glaciers of huge mass spread from the Arctic all over the northern hemisphere, and here they leveled huge areas with their mass and slow movement. But they also left behind huge lonely boulders that were enclosed in their body and quite possibly arrived here from Svalbard.
And as in any place under the sun, the diversity of life here is sometimes surprising. Many animals and birds have found a permanent home in the tundra, foxes, reindeer, wolves and bears, hares, ground squirrels and many others.
You will not meet them at every step, because the far north still remains a harsh place where resources are never in abundance, as well as their consumption. Everything is measured, everything is balanced. Therefore, it is a great luck for a person to see a wild animal in these open spaces, because they are so vast that you may never meet.
Where there is life, there is death, as its end or beginning, the closing element of the cycle. Probably, if you learn to hear the tundra like indigenous people, then it can accept you as a part of itself, and discover even more of its amazing secrets.
