Once again a beautiful day to enjoy. Flat seas, no wind and clear skies. Temperatures nearly reached 80 today. Perfect day for exploring the sights of Dubrovnik. We are already planning for a next cruise in regards to this place. Two cruises from now, my regular dock will be taken by the Carnival Freedom, (see my blog of a few days ago) so the small Veendam will have to anchor and use tenders to shuttle the guests ashore. Part of the port is being refitted and of course that is just the area where we would normally park our tenders. So the chief officer was on a mission to find an alternative space.
There was one location that was workable and not such a bad place either. Right off the market square so there will be something for the guests to look at, when they are waiting for the tender to take them back. It is just a pity that the location can only accommodate one tender at the time, and thus it will all depend on the fact if all the tour buses return at the same time, whether there will be a waiting line yes or no. Trying to regulate the return of tour buses is not so easy, as their progress and schedule depends a lot on the traffic and congestion in the town.
The reconstruction of the port has to do with the increasing popularity of Dubrovnik as a cruise the port. Originally the dock followed the outline of the coast. That was fine as long as the visiting ships where not longer then 500 feet. But 500 feet is now a days only the lenght of a small (cruise) ship and angles in the dock create problems with getting the larger ships docked. Therefore there is now a project goingon in the port to take these angles out of the dock and that means that ships up to a 1000 feet can dock alongside and that gives room for two mega liners alongside with room left for a smaller ship behind them.
We left just before sunset and the sun gave a beautiful performance by sinking into the Adriatic sea in a hue of vibrant colors. Tomorrow will be asea day and again the weather forecast is great.
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