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Further out to sea from Suur Haak there is what seems to be a felsenmeer: Suurehagi kari, then things quieten down again (other than the two Paljassaare forks, Suur Paljassaare poolsaar and Väike Paljassaare poolsaar (large and small Paljassaare peninsulae) between which lie Saarevahe Lõugas (lit. between-the-islands bight, where ‘island’ is surely metonymic and/or just plain lazy for ‘peninsula’, but then again they are peninsulas on a peninsula...) and Saarevahe Haak, another bump in the road... Moving down the Paljassaare peninsula to the shining city on a limestone bank, this is where it starts getting interesting, we find Pikakari and anyone looking at it cannot but have an Aha! moment. First of all, it’s relatively long (see Pikk), and secondly it looks as if someone added a few tons of riprap onto the pre-existing string of boulders for stability and poured cement all the way out to sea and called it Katariina kai or quay.