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Baltic Cruise - 2011 July
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Dover
The ship's photographer had the cheek to ask £6 extra for this as a jpeg
Looking back to the white cliffs
Lesley claimed this was an oil rig
MS Braemar
This model, on display in the ship's reception area shows the state before it was lengthened in 2008.
How the split happened. Note the addition of some (very expensive) "deluxe balcony cabins" forward on Deck 8
Brunsbüttel
We had to wait quite a long time for clearance to enter the Kiel Canal
Kiel Canal, Brunsbüttel Locks
Forget what you have learnt about red=port, green=starboard. The lights in the Kiel Canal have their road meanings of stop and go! In German it is the
Nord-Ostsee-Kanal.
Lock gate. The water level in the Elbe estuary may be higher or lower than the canal depending on the state of the tide. On this occasion, we dropped just over a metre to enter the canal.
Site of the old gate before the lock was enlarged. Note the special box for gongoozlers.
Ships travelling in the opposite direction entering the lock beside the one we are using
Our boat is 196 metres long but there is still room to get two more into the lock
The gate at the canal end just finishing opening
A special viewing platform. Big passenger vessels are probably quite rare to judge by the amount of attention we received. I wonder what the German word for "gongoozle" is.
Kiel Canal
The first of several ferries that cross the canal
From the Observatory lounge forward on Deck 8
In the wide parts of the canal we were allowed to do 8.7 knots and this is the wake we were leaving.
Sign showing a ship. But you are on a ship canal - you expect ships! What it means is: ferry crossing ahead.
Pilots are changed half way at Nubbel
Rendsburg
This is part of a ship being towed through the canal but it is not the bit that was spliced into Braemar -
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