Saturday, April 1, 2017

Report #91 Suez Canal Transit March 31, 2017 Friday Partly cloudy & 72 degrees Part #2 Of 3 80 Pictures

The transit continues……

 

Eventually there is one passage

 

There were a few turns in the canal

 

Tugboat followed us all day

 

The sky was never blue today

 

You can see the two channels

 

Guard houses

 

Tents set up by their vehicles

 

The major cities on the canal have around 700 to 750 thousand residents

 

Fishermen

 

No motorized boats here

 

Look what a difference fresh water makes

 

The best scenery is on the opposite side

 

The sand is always blowing off of the dunes

 

Fishing

 

A tanker

 

Hard work

 

Going south

 

There must be a lot of fish in this canal

 

Which way to go?

 

It's a man's world

 

Many different types of vessels

 

Italian registry

 

Nice scenery

 

The friendship bridge

 

New watch tower

 

We could see a fountain of water gushing

 

The water must have come from dredgers on the opposite side

 

Continuous rock wall lined the canal

 

The only bridge to span this canal

 

Taking in the nets

 

Had to work fast, since we were on the way

 

Another military complex

 

Egyptian fishermen

 

Still watching from the bow

 

Fairly new,  constructed with the help from Japan

 

Modern design

 

Thomson ship just went under

 

Getting near the end

 

There goes the car carrier

 

Another guard house

 

Reminds us of the new span on the SF Bay Bridge

 

Plenty of clearance

 

Moving ahead

 

Very slowly

 

This bridge is 2.4 miles long

 

New build

 

Looks like a truck stop

 

Better than a ferry

 

Looks deserted

 

Amsterdam singers and dancers practicing

 

Love Crazy is their show tonight

 

Singers

 

Completing the transit soon

 

Pigeon towers

 

Every farm house had them

 

Farm living on the canal

 

Every building has a guard tower

 

Canal living

 

Place to park your boat

 

One-laner now

 

A small mosque

 

Clever-made bird house from ancient times

 

Perches and holes for the pigeons to enter

 

The road was busy

 

A few cattle

 

A guard sits in here all day

 

Vented on the top

 

Getting close to Port Said

 

More cows

 

Industrial part of Port Said

 

Old farmhouse

 

Even roadside bird towers

 

Agricultural property

 

Typical house

 

Miles of the same scenery

 

Interesting construction

 

Irrigated from the Nile

 

The perfect house

 

Keeping to the right

 

Little mosques everywhere