Friday, April 14, 2017

Report #104 Barcelona, Spain April 13, 2017 Thursday Sunny & 70 degrees Sailaway Part #3 Of 3 58 Pictures

More photos from the sail away…..

 

 

World Trade Center on the right

 

A modest sailboat

 

Their sail is not up

 

Rounding the corner

 

A hotel, possibly the Vela Hotel

 

Castle of Montjuic

 

A tour boat

 

The bridge back to the ship

 

Harbor storage

 

Water Company with a gondola passing overhead

 

Sacrada Familia with cranes always hovering overhead

 

Sagrada Familia on the left, and the Gothic Cathedral on the right

 

One of many tour boats

 

Downtown was about 2 miles away

 

Rounding the point

 

Waiting to  leave

 

Para-sailing

 

Another tug

 

Passing through the central tower

 

Unusual for a water company

 

Finally, the ropes being dropped

 

A fun way to tour the water front

 

Happy tourists

 

The green lighthouse – starboard side

 

High speed tour

 

Pilot boat

 

More traditional boat ride

 

Rounding the point carefully

 

Leaving from Maremagnum

 

Here comes one ferry

 

Finally ready to go – an hour late

 

Young herring gull

 

This is why we are not having the sail aways at the aft deck - gross

 

Ever-present gulls

 

Searching for handouts

 

Always looking

 

Another large ferry enters the harbor

 

Bringing more tourists for the weekend

 

In flight

 

Older gull

 

Eagle eye

 

Checking us out

 

Here comes the pilot

 

They don't need pilots

 

Looking for free food

 

People from the ship began to feed them bread

 

Another old vessel

 

Graceful

 

Even though they are scavengers

 

Younger bird

 

Older gull

 

Different from this angle

 

 

Begging food

 

Leaving this long pier

 

This was the ferry we waited for

 

A car, bus, and truck ferry

 

Commercial port as well

 

Fully-colored adult bird