Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Cruise Ships

We have lots of cruise ships coming into Charlottetown this time of year.  Sometime 2 or 3 in one day.  I happened to be downtown a few weeks ago & noticed that one of the ships was docked out in the harbour & was using their little boats to ferry passengers back & forth.  I thought it would be really neat to take the kids to see when the ship was getting ready to leave port, as they would be hoisting the boats up.

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Here the boat is just starting to be lifted from the water.

 

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The kids seemed to be more excited about running around on the rocks than watching, but I found it extremely interesting!

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And here the ship that was further out in the harbour (Norwegian Dawn) had to move so that the ship in port (Veendam) could leave.

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Here the Veendam is leaving port

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And the Norwegian Dawn is turning behind it

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Sadly, we didn’t get to see the Norwegian Dawn leave since it was raining & we’d already been down at the docks for quite awhile.  I probably found it more interesting than the kids did, but it was a fun thing to see.

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