Part 11 of 20 in ‘The Aegean Shores’ series
Past a little wooded island
down a Cretian estuary
To the Venetian port of Chania
sheltered from the sea
The Pilot was a Master
A joy to watch his craft
as he turned us on a sixpence
with thrusters fore and aft
©Jemverse
Photo – Souda – a small unpopulated island in the Bay of Chania, Crete, Greece – Jempics
I didn’t get a picture, but the dock at Chania was only just big enough to accommodate the Thomson Dream. Watching the pilot manoeuvre the ship using just the thrusters though, was quite something.
[This is part 11 of a 20-part series charting a seven-day cruise with Tui from 11-18 August 2017, travelling from London to Corfu, then Kalamata (Greece), Santorini, Rhodes, Crete, Piraeus (Greece), Kefalonia, Corfu and London, some 3,870 nautical miles]
