cruise ship in front of the Cuxhaven skyline

The first – and from my point of view most important stop – have been the seals. As long as possible they are relaxing on a sandbank. As soon as the high tide overflows the sandbank they have to swim until the low tide sets the sandbank free again. This picture was taken shortly before the sandbank was over flooded. In respect of the privacy of the seals and especially in order not to drive them off their sandbank we keept a huge distance to them.

Seals on a sandbank

I recognized hat every ferry I show you is getting bigger than before; so no surprise that in Cuxhaven the oversea truck ferries are taking off.

oversea truck ferry

More than one dockyard exists in order to repair ships whenever needed

dockyard

Wherever so much issues are going on on the water the police needs to go different ways as usual. Surely they need their own boats:

Cuxhaven police

This counts for the fire brigade as well:

fire brigade ship

Elbe river crossing – way from Wischhafen to Glueckstadt

The ferries over there are quite big; Within 250 metres (270 yards) and 3 lanes about 60 cars (or proportionate less) trucks can be transported.

car ferry

along the way you can have a view on the beautiful countryside over there:

view from ferry while Elbe river passing

…but this does not prevent the big ships using the river as well

ships joining us in Elbe river using

And finally; our destination is in sight

destination: Glueckstadt