Silistra-Cernavoda, 22 August

Today we are travelling from km 376 to km 299 where we enter the Donau -Black Sea Canal.

This will be our last day day on the Danube which we entered on the 7th of July. 

There are mussels in the Danube! Empty shells floating past the boat. Saw at a restaurant that they served Danube mussels but did not believe it.

The last part of the Danube that we are travelling is getting more interesting. Hills and cliffs, holiday houses, cows and even a mule.

Enjoying the last hours on the Danube.

The bridge at Cernavoda. This famous construction  is named Saligny bridge after the Romamian constructor Anghel Saligny, who laid down the plans for the bridge in 1895.

A close-up of the bridge.

We had to check into Romania in Cernavoda, at the Police station on a pontoon and in the Police building. We had to collect 700 lei to pay for the canal dues tomorrow. One of the policemen offered to drive us to the exchange office. We took the chance to buy some groceries. Richard, the policeman, very kindly took us to a supermarket.

We have to stay somewhere tonight because we will enter the canal tomorrow, so we are this private pontoon, belonging to Rado.

Another view of the pontoon. We are tied up to this boat. Rado had informed the canal authorities that we will be entering the canal at 6.30 tomorrow and he will wake us up in time. This is standard procedure, checking into the canal and waiting for permission.

The most enormous barges are coming out of the canal and stonking their way up the Danube. This one has two pushes and is pushing eight barges. 

Last meal on the Danube, about the same as the first meal, sausages and salad! But what a tasty sausage this was!!

Nice tomatoes and cucumber. There is a nuclear power station here, maybe that is why the cucumbers are so big.