About 15 km past the Austrian boarder there is what’s called the “Schlögen Schlinge” A 180 degree bend in the Danube. We stayed in the marina (you can just see it in the left of the picture) and walked up the mountain to the look out over this p…
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Summer daze…
Ahoy, my friends! No Bahamian history lesson today, rather, just the usual travelogue and commentary on our escapades of late! We spent one day being somewhat industrious for ourselves, doing a bit of routine maintenance: oil change for the 12 kW gense…
Lake Superior 2011
LAKE SUPERIOR: The Indian name for Lake Superior is Kitchi gami. Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes by both surface area and volume. By surface area, it is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Superior contains more water than all the other Great Lakes combined. It contains 10% of all […]
Sizzlin’ Hot Summer
Late afternoon thunderstorm at Breton Bay. Unofficially, the start of summer is Memorial Day, and ever since that time we have been tortured with high temps and humidity. B…
Austria
It is interesting how different each country is.We are now in Austria and the Danube wanders through the Austrian alps.Very picturesque. A typical Austrian house on the banks of the Danube.
sights of Passau
The big cathedral with the largest pipe organ in the world!!!!! Just some sights of Passau. Only Michal Nelson will understand why I took this picture!!!!1 Why did this remind me of you Mike?????And this reminded me of our grandson Bo!…
Helping hand from "BIG BROTHER"
Just after the police told us to move and we went on our way we met the “VIKING LEGEND”After Joanne told me she did not feel like going back on the dingy I thought I would try to contact the captain of this cruise boat and ask him for a favor. He…
The "VIKING LEGEND"
No Joanne did not abandon ship and continued on the “Viking Legend”However she did inform me that there was no way she was going to go back on the dingy in these fast flowing, turbulent water.
Aproaching Passau
The Danube is running fast especially where she is narrow.We are glad to be going down stream and not up stream. We are approaching the last city in Germany “Passau”And what a nice place to visit. Here we are coming to the lock …
Danube locks
The locks on the Danube are “BIG and WIDE”Two commercial ships can fit in beside each other and many have floating bollards.
