Friday, April 7, 2017

Report #97 Heraklion, Crete, Greece April 6, 2017 Thursday Partly cloudy & 67 degrees Sailaway Part #3 Of 3 68 Pictures

The final photos…..

 

Two ships in port

 

One kayaker and small boater in the harbor

 

Sea gull

 

Checking us out

 

Hunting

 

Soaring

 

Not many birds today

 

Only a few

 

Taking in the gangway

 

The dock area

 

Boat yard

 

The last shuttle coming from the terminal

 

The sail away was lonely

 

A crane

 

View of the Old Venetian Port

 

Commercial harbor

 

Commercial ship

 

Working port

 

The modern city of Heraklion

 

Terminal

 

Hillsides in the distance

 

Part of the old city wall

 

View of the mountains

 

A light beacon

 

A few ferries in port

 

Firing up the engines…….resulting soot

 

A small tug

 

Must get more rain here

 

It was quite green up high

 

Busy shipyard

 

Larger tug

 

Pushing away from the dock

 

Finally leaving

 

Tug

 

Looking towards the airport

 

Tug helping us

 

Commercial dock

 

Report #97     Sailaway   Part #3 Of 3     Pictures

 

Airplane near the airport

 

Looking towards the west

 

Freighter

 

Another freighter

 

Airport was nearby

 

Outskirts of town

 

Small fishing boat

 

Having a hard time navigating

 

Small in the water

 

Even smaller

 

Gull

 

Herring gull

 

Leaving Crete

 

On the hunt

 

Graceful

 

But so few of them

 

Looking at us

 

Heading north towards Mykonos

 

Island off of the coast

 

Looked deserted

 

Lighthouse

 

Fading in the distance

 

Could be an  isolated church

 

Sun setting by 7:44pm

 

Going down

 

Fast now

 

About gone

 

No green flash

 

End of the day

 

Moon was coming out