In the Vydra birthplace, i.e. in the Modrava hollow, a small village of Modrava was founded at the beginning of the 18th century, which is now a famous tourist centre. It used to be a woodcutter settlement, the significance of which increased after the building of the Vchynicko-tetovský wood-floating canal parting from Vydra just below Modrava to deflect a part of its water to a much calmer Křemelná River…