< hide menu

April 16: trip to Tallinn 2

The voyage itself.

6129.jpg

The grand, um, bowitorium. What do you even call this? A showroom, I guess.

6130.jpg

Chimneys: just as colorful as the hull.

6133.jpg

Looking back to shore before setting off. The entry to the ferries always seems to be through these incredibly long glazed, elevated tunnels, which is interesting from an architectural/spatial point of view.

6136.jpg

Some nice sun on the deck, though it was pretty chillers to hang around out there for long.

6138.jpg

Gullspective.

6139.jpg

Sun plus phenomena (note the faintish sun dogs to the far left and right of the sun).

6140.jpg

It never stops being curious having the gulls flying around far below you when you're up on deck.

6153.jpg

Must be moving, judging by the presence of the smoke.

6161.jpg

Sun plus phenomena 2.0; also islands.

6165.jpg

The left sun dog.

6174.jpg

Helsinki receding — Agricolan kirkko is the spire in the middle; to its right are the spires of Johanneksenkirkko.

6185.jpg

Plastic blue sea view.

6201.jpg

About halfway across the Gulf, one could glimpse both the Finnish and Estonian shores, which was pretty incredible. This is looking forward toward Tallinn; the one sign of land you can see is the tower in the middle of the horizon.

6214.jpg

This, meanwhile, is a view back toward Helsinki, and here you can more clearly see features on the shore.

6218.jpg

Ferries in the distance, heading in the opposite direction.

6225.jpg

Looking up to the ceiling of the showroom and further up to the bridge.

6234.jpg

Chiaroscuro as we near the shore.

6236.jpg

Chiaroscuro 2.0.

6255.jpg

This bird seemed rather inquisitive (hungry?) and flitted around as we disembarked.

6257.jpg

The dock at Tallinn, with the old city straight yonder.