Our cabin has two windows looking out over the aft deck. Over the last ten months we have taken a number of photos documenting some of the interesting and unusual stuff we have observed out the back window.
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| The wake - my favourite view - leaving Tenerife |
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| Flying Bobcat |
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| Crane barge and dredger, De La Perouse |
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| Port tug, Nanga |
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| Car carrier - the boring end |
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| Tugs, Loufoulakari and Nanga with Grimaldi Lines Con-Ro, Grande Guinea |
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| Grande Guinea departing - these vessels were regular visitors and often would not use tugs |
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| Reefer |
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| Tug, Leketi. in foreground with one of the most unusual cargoes we saw unloaded early one morning |
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| Baltic Cruiser conducted a basin trial for about 4 hours one afternoon |
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| Bulker, African Iris - the digger is being loaded into the cargo hold to shift the cargo for unloading |
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| Hydrographic Survey Motor Boat, Koulou |
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| Anchor Handling/Towing/Supply (AHTS) Vessel, Posh Terasea - Mediterranean moored |
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| Car Carrier, Glovis Passion - Mediterranean moored whilst Italian Navy was in port taking up lots of berths |
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Reefer, Sierra Medoc - note the containerised Aggreko generator on the aft deck.
This ship was detained in port for about a week |
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| A rare sight |
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| United African Lines (UAL) general cargo vessel |
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| A rare sight, again. |
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| Reefer, Nova Zeelandia - I had to look up where Willenstad was (Dutch Antilles) |
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| Spanish Fishing Trawlers - Only one of the two coming in had it's engines running |
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| And later there were four but it was too dark by then |
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| Barge, Merlin III |
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| Car Carrier - check out the guy on the ramp |
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| Norwegian Research Vessel, Dr Fridtjof Nansen |
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| Cargo Vessel, Safmarine Sahara - a regular visitor |
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| Barge, Kinshasa - visited a few times and seemed to just load 22 seater Toyota Coaster buses |
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Grimaldi Lines Con-Ro, Grande Congo - Mediterranean moored.
Shot taken from the wharf, not the back window as this was the only way to get it all in. |
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| Grande Congo - Unloading |
Grande Congo departing. Once last line was let go it took about another 45 minutes to depart as one anchor cable became fouled over the bulbous bow,
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Busy day with Reefer unloading, forklifts loading trucks, Tug Leketi berthed behind us
and a big digger emptying our rubbish skips |
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| Sometimes a container "flys" by our window! |
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| The pattern is full - Tugs Loufoulakari, Leketi, Nanga, Ndji-Ndji and a Pilot Boat |
Back at sea again, on our way to Gran Canaria, and rolling a bit.
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