I only have a few photos because my new camera died. I dropped it; it worked fine until today. Oh well, I'm glad I brought my trusty old camera with me as a backup. I will be using it in the Mediterranean and the remainder of the around the world cruise.
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| The cargo ships started lining up to go through the canal around 11am. The captain said the cruise ships were usually a priority, but not today. We were #27 in line to enter the canal. |
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| The anchors went up around 2:30pm, but we didn't start moving until around 3:30pm. Here we are making our way toward the city of Suez. |
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| We're in the canal. Only a few photos were registering in the camera. These are the ones that survived. Here's the mosque in the city of Suez, Egypt. |
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| The ms Amsterdam is beginning the trek. The canal is a little over 100 miles long, and only about 47 ships can make the journey in the typical day. |
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| Here's what the beginning miles of the Suez Canal look like. It's kind of like a river. |
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| There are guard houses along the way. This one is on the Sinai Peninsula side of the canal. |
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| A satellite image of the canal compliments of Google. We enter from the south and moving north to Port Said in the Mediterranean. |
