Saturday, April 1, 2017

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

The end of the transit……

 

Canal cnstruction

 

Several houses for a lot of birds

 

A company on the canal

 

More guard houses

 

They must get a lot of eggs and fertilizer

 

Unique road structure

 

A long line of trucks parked here

 

This must have some meaning

 

A dredger that keeps the sand out of the canal

 

Sucks up the sand, then blows it on the dunes

 

Many vehicles

 

Strange-looking

 

Hundreds of sea birds in the shallow waters

 

Sea gulls

 

Leaving the canal

 

Shipyards at the exit

 

A ferry cuts behind the car carrier

 

Transports vehicles all day

 

Loaded up for the crossing

 

Coming and going all day

 

Very busy shipyard

 

Two small boats

 

Sea gull

 

May be a great black-backed gull

 

Pilot boats

 

Our pilot may have left on this boat

 

Headed towards the harbor

 

Large tug boat

 

An MSC ship in port

 

Cranes

 

Pilot boat

 

Watch tower

 

terns

 

Always hunting

 

Could be a yacht club

 

Could be a black-headed gull

 

Every building has a mosque nearby

 

Gull

 

Last of the canal zone

 

More sea birds now

 

Near the end

 

Thousands of birds

 

A mix of sea gulls and terns

 

Feeding on the shoreline

 

A tern

 

Not sure the type

 

Graceful small bird

 

Large numbers of them

 

Looking for food

 

When they spot food, they dive

 

Found something

 

Diving

 

Fork-tailed

 

Another fishing vessel

 

Anyone like some fruit?

 

Don't mind if I do…….

 

Tern

 

Prettier than a gull

 

Easy flyer

 

Soaring over the water

 

White and black

 

Orange-beaked tern

 

Always looking

 

Lots of competition

 

Flying high

 

14 inches from beak to tail

 

Looks like a plane

 

Will dive soon

 

A buoy

 

Birds resting on the buoy

 

Easy riding

 

Many sea birds in the Med