The Mukhtel lake is a former lagoon on the Aleksandra Bay shore of the Sea of Okhotsk, connected with the sea by a narrow straight. Several tens of plain and mountain waterways flow into the lake, the largest of them is Mukhtel. The lake length is 10.8 km, width - 4.6 km, depth - 4 m, square - up to 28 sq. km.
Specificity of the Mukhtel lake nature is determined by a neighbourhood of the sea and ground ecosystems. The coastal rocks, shingle beaches, bogs, meadows, forest islands and fresh-waters are favorable for settling of many kinds of animals and concentration of their population. The spawning of fish, sea mammals occurs near the lake side, what attracts many predators to these places. It is possible to watch seals and whales from the shore.
The wildlife is unique due to the rare species of animals and their high population density. The main zoological attraction of the lake is the largest in the Sea of Okhotsk area population of Steller's sea eagle, brown bear, northern deer (in summer), and the largest in the Khabarovsk Krai swan colony. Not far from the lake there is one of the bird's migration branches. The lake water fauna is represented mostly by passage fish, when it is a place of carp inhabitation. Mukhtel river is also rich in fish. Here could be possible amateur fishing for lenok, redeye eastern redfin is exceptionally good.
The area of the lake is deserted and difficult to reach. Only tourists visit it from time to time, in the winter - hunters and fishermen. The lake is located in 110 km from the Amur river and in 60 km from the nearest settlement Mnogovershinny.
The sunsets are extremely beautiful here. One can admire the mirages during the sunny summer days.
