A different kind of harbour

The canal stretch from Rendsburg yesterday was uneventful. It is 66 KM but not really boring as there is always something happening, passing interesting bridges (42 m high!), seeing big ocean going ships etc. We take 'shifts', steering the boat for 10KM at a time.
As planned we stopped at Brunsbüttel, where the yacht harbour is just inside the lock. When I say 'just', that needs to be taken quite literally: the big ships pass meters away from us. The lock is 330m long and 42m wide and yesterday around 10pm a cruise liner came through which only just fitted in!

These pictures (taken from Onbekommerd), show a slightly smaller one that came through this morning:









After midday we'll go through the lock ourselves (probably the 'small lock', which is half the size although they were using the big lock for yachts yesterday) and go 9 miles with the tide down the Elbe to Otterndorf.

There appears to be a coffe shop with WiFi close by here, where we will now try to send this post.

Location:Brunsbüttel