Summer Vacation 2012 - Kuivaniemen Vatunginnokka

Describing this harbor I had to delegate to my crew - I did not leave the vessel at all, not even visited the cockpit, because of the windmills. I described the situation in my earlier post "Cape of the Giants" and how I changed my mental view on them in the other post "Winning the windmills".

The wind was blowing at 15 m/s and we again waited for weather to calm continue our journey. My crew has time to take pics and I have to say that next time I want leave the vessel and study the environment. I can imagine how pleasant the sand on the beach would feel in my paws when digging - except pets are not allowed on the beach says the crew... 

After the wind has calmed down we continued to Kemi which will be my next post in the vacation destination series.

Info on the destination (note no cafe this summer) http://venenetti.fi/satamat/perameri/ryoskarinkalla-iin-roytta/1938-vatunginnokka/vatunginnokka.

Coming soon...

... next part of Summer Vacation 2012 - Kuivaniemen Vatunginnokka...

Cape of the Giants

I will tell you now about a recent tough mission. We arrived to a new harbor, Vatunginnokka. After the good sailing I started my watch as usual. However, this was not your usual watch session: the harbour was surrounded by giants with wildly rotating , huge heads.  I had to take the highest risk level practices in use.  

In this picture  perform check on the boat aft by listening via the crew toiled window, sitting on top of a crew toilet seat (imagine how unpleasant this was but one must stretch to perform his duty).

Here I check the cockpit. Usually I climb to top of the stairs, and perform my walkarounds on the deck frequently, but now I must limit to the very lowest of the steps. 

With most careful security procedures I captured a photo showing three of those.

And what my crew did? Well, at least one of them was with me all the time in the vessel. However, the first mate had careless attitude; she was mostly interested the excellent quest sauna facilities... 

... and photographing the flora.