Kappeln

After spending a day in Laboe, we did our first 'Baltic crossing' today. It was a nice quiet day, very little wind and a sea that was for the most part pretty flat. We set course to Schleimünde, the mouth of the Schlei, which is a fjord-like river or a river-like fjord, depending on which pilot you read.
First you pass Kiel lighthouse:





And some 20 miles later, in a NW direction, you get to the Schlei lighthouse:






We motored on to the town of Kappeln, an old fishing town turned quite touristy. You tie up right on the towns quayside:






As you can see, we are quite far North, we were a bit more East yesterday: Laboe is at 10 degrees 14 minutes East.


One of the attractions of Kappeln for the boating fraternity is a shop called Prätorius. If you prove you are on a boat (with your official Certificate of Ownership), you can enter an area where you can buy low cost beer etc. With prices of alcohol sky high in Scandinavia, many boats stock up here. So we joined the trend:






Tomorrow, we plan to move up to the 'head' of the Schlei, the town of Schleswig, which has a Viking history.