Up another river

The harbourmaster at Elsfleth told us that the best time to leave to get up the Hunte with the tide would be one and a half hour after low tide. It's quite surprising that quite far from the sea, the effect of the tide is still so significant: the tidal difference at Elsfleth is 3.2m and the tidal current on the Hunte up to 3 knots!

Anyway, as low tide was at 14:15, we had lost the entire day to kill at Elsfleth. That's not easy, as it is not exactly the 'centre of the universe'. This is the main shopping street on a Friday morning (which is also market day...):





But we did find a good supermarket. And the facilities of the 'harbour' (actually just a mooring jetty along the river) were good. So not a bad place for an overnight stop only.

Once we got under way, we passed the 'Gorch Fock', a nice and quite well known square rigger:





We are now in Oldenburg, in the 'Stadthafen', very near the old town. As almost always, the harbourmaster is very friendly and helpful.

Tomorrow we will 'do' the Küstenkanal, which is known to be long (60 Km) and boring but the best / quickest / shortest / only way apart from the East Frisian islands to get back to Holland.