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Tour 2009
MS Nautica Cruise Hong Kong to Athens April / May 2009
15 - Egypt, Suez Canal.
May 9th 2009
The Suez Canal Authorities website:
http://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/
06:00am and MS Nautica enters the Suez Canal at Port Taufiq, Suez.
Suez Canal entrance at Port Taufiq, Suez.
Port Taufiq, Suez.
Suez Canal entrance at Port Taufiq, Suez.
Suez Canal at Port Taufiq, Suez.
Port Taufiq, Suez.
Port Taufiq, Suez.
Ayoun Moussa Power Station, on the eastern approaches to the Suez Canal.
Port Taufiq, Suez.
Looking back at the entrance to the Suez Canal and Port Taufiq, Suez.
Suez Canal.
Looking back at Port Taufiq, Suez.
Suez Canal.
Kubrr, Suez Canal.
Wadi Tor Salum, Suez Canal.
The start of the Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.
Suez Canal.
Wadi Tor Salum, Suez Canal.
The start of the Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.
Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.
Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.
Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.
Looking back at Ships entering the Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.
Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.
The mothballed airbase at the top of the Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.
Lead ships enter the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Looking over to Sinai from the Little Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Looking over to Sinai from the Little Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Entering the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Entering the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Looking over to Sinai from the Little Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Start of the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
The mothballed airbase at the top of the Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.
Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
We pass moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
We pass moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
We continue to shadow Maersk Maren. Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
MV Shingal, moored up after an engine room fire last January. Great Bitter Lake.
Suez Canal.
We pass moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Car carrier Perseus Leader. Suez
Canal.
We pass moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
We pass moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
We pass moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
We pass moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
We pass moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
We pass moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Exiting the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Looking back at moored ships in the Great Bitter Lake. Suez Canal.
Exiting the Great Bitter Lake, where there is a canal by-pass. Suez Canal.
The ship ahead exits the by-pass. Suez Canal.
Looking back at the Great Bitter Lake and the by-pass. Suez Canal.
The Serapeum Ferry weaves between the shipping. Suez Canal.
Serapeum Ferry. Suez Canal.
Serapeum Ferry. Suez Canal.
Looking back at the Serapeum Ferry. Suez Canal.
Suez Canal.
Ismailiya and Lake Timsah in the distance. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya and Lake Timsah in the distance. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya Suez Canal Authority workshops. Suez Canal.
Suez Canal.
Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez Canal.
Suez Canal.
Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya World War One memorial. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez Canal.
The Suez Canal Authority dredger Khattab sank in September 2006, during the
deepening operations. Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez Canal.
Looking back. Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez Canal.
The Suez Canal Authorities dredger Al Seddiek. Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez
Canal.
List of the Suez Canal Authorities dredging fleet
http://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/Files/krakat.pdf
The Suez Canal Authorities dredger Al Seddiek. Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez
Canal.
The Suez Canal Authorities dredger Al Seddiek. Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez
Canal.
The Suez Canal Authorities dredger Al Seddiek. Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez
Canal.
Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez Canal.
We get a change of pilot at Ismailiya Pilot Station. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya Pilot Station and ferry. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya Pilot boat. Yes, it is a wooden craft. Suez Canal.
Egyptian 1973 War Memorial on the Sinai bank at Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Egyptian 1973 War Memorial on the Sinai bank at Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Looking back at Lake Timsah. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya Pilot Station and ferry. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya ferry. Suez Canal.
Looking back at Ismailiya Pilot Station and ferry, with Lake Timsah in the
distance. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Looking back at the 1973 War Memorial on the Sinai bank at Ismailiya. Suez
Canal.
Military ferry, Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Looking onward toward the railway double swing bridge.
Looking back at Ismailiya and Lake Timsah. Suez Canal.
Activity at the military ferry, Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Activity at the military ferry, Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
Looking back to the military ferry, Ismailiya. Suez Canal.
The El Ferdan railway double swing bridge, built in 2001 to replace one lost
during the 1967 war. Suez Canal.
The El Ferdan railway double swing bridge - the largest in the world. Suez
Canal.
The El Ferdan railway double swing bridge. Suez Canal.
The El Ferdan railway double swing bridge, this can also take road traffic. Suez
Canal.
Looking back at the El Ferdan railway double swing bridge. Suez Canal.
The Ballah canal by-pass before the Mubarak Peace Bridge. Suez Canal.
Ballah. Suez Canal.
Mubarak Peace Bridge. Suez Canal.
Mubarak Peace Bridge. Suez Canal.
Mubarak Peace Bridge from the canal side. Suez Canal.
Mubarak Peace Bridge from the canal side. Suez Canal.
The Quantara El Gharbiya Ferry. Suez Canal.
Rail action at Quantara El Gharbiya. Suez Canal.
Rail action at Quantara El Gharbiya. Suez Canal.
Looking back at the Mubarak Peace Bridge. Suez Canal.
Looking back at the Mubarak Peace Bridge. Suez Canal.
Suez Canal.
Suez Canal.
Ships on the Suez Canal from the Port Said road.
Ships on the Suez Canal from the Port Said road.
Ships on the Suez Canal from the Port Said road.
Ships on the Suez Canal from the Port Said road.
Ships on the Suez Canal from the Port Said road.
Ships on the Suez Canal from the Port Said road.
Ships on the Suez Canal from the Port Said road.
Ships on the Suez Canal from the Port Said road.
Rail action at Ras al Ushsh. Suez Canal.
Rail action at Ras al Ushsh. Suez Canal.
The Port Said by-pass goes off to the east, direct to the Mediterranean Sea.
Suez Canal.
All the other ships go on the Port Said by-pass. Suez Canal.
Ras al Ushsh. Suez Canal.
Military chopper over the Port Said by-pass. Ras al Ushsh. Suez Canal.
The Tarek Ebn Zeyad cutter suction dredger at work in the Port Said by-pass. Ras
al Ushsh. Suez Canal.
All the traffic on the Port Said by-pass. Ras al Ushsh. Suez Canal.
Looking back at the start of the Port Said by-pass. Ras al Ushsh. Suez Canal.
Connecting channel to the Port Said by-pass. Ras al Ushsh. Suez Canal.
Ras al Ushsh. Suez Canal.
Looking across to a ship on the Port Said by-pass. Suez Canal.
Approaches to Port Said. Suez Canal.
Approaches to Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Looking across to a ship on the Port Said by-pass from Port Said. Suez Canal.
Looking across to the Port Said by-pass from Port Said. Suez Canal.
One of the numerous ferries in Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Al Azhar Mosque. Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said Ferry -o-rama. Suez Canal.
Port Said Ferry-o-rama. Suez Canal.
Port Said ferry. Suez Canal.
Port Said ferry from the bank side. Suez Canal.
Port Said ferry from the bank side. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
Port Said. Suez Canal.
The Suez Canal Authority Building. Port Said. Suez Canal.
Yet more ferries. Port Said. Suez Canal.
Yet more ferries, Suez Canal Authority Building in the background. Port Said.
Suez Canal.
Port Said.
Sister ship to MS Nautica, MS Azamara Quest. Port Said.
(Oceania Cruise Lines MS Nautica was the defunct Renaissance Cruise Lines R Five
and Azamara Cruise Lines MS Azamara Quest was Renaissance Cruise Line R Seven.)
Port Said.
Port Said.
Arrival at Port Said.
Arrival at Port Said.
Action on the wing bridge. Captain Jurica Brajcic controls the bowthruster,
while the pilot looks on. Arrival at Port Said.
The retailing maze erected for passengers that venture ashore. Port Said.
Captain Jurica Brajcic looks on. Arrival at Port Said.
Port Said.
Port Said welcomes the spendaholics.
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