Cruise Chronicles – Day 3 - Leaving Copenhagen

Our time in Copenhagen was ending and the cruise part was about to begin. After much waiting in the hotel and the bus ride to the docks and the massive screening and check-in of more than 3,000 other passengers, we were in our cabin by early afternoon.

We set sail promptly at 6 PM. Some boats have loud, long horn blasts to announce their presence. The same loud horns on this boat play the theme from the Love Boat…like a honking carillon. I’m sure folks in sleepy little port towns thrill at the sound…or not.

With no city touring before we boarded the ship, today held few photographic opportunities. Of course, there was this gigantic ship I could document but I will save that report for the Day 4 post when we were at sea the entire day.

Wind Turbines and the Oresund Bridge (10 May 2019)

Fortunately, our cabin was NOT on the dockside of the boat and I was able to capture this interesting scene. The late sun shone on a line of wind turbines with the bridge that connects Denmark to Sweden in the distance. Completed in 1999, the Øresond Bridge (and tunnel) accommodates road and rail traffic. Many Danes take advantage of the cheaper housing in Sweden and commute to their jobs from their northern neighbor. I believe this composition looks better cropped to a narrow/panoramic perspective and reduced to black and white.

Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant, Copenhagen (10 May 2019)

Also visible from our cabin balcony was another thing you rarely find in our narrow-minded, tight-fisted American system. How do you feel about having a big waste incinerator in your city?

Would you like it better if the tons of municipal waste were burned to generate steam heat and electricity? But wait! Since you don’t have anything like mountains in your area, would it be better if the plant added an artificial ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall?

Also known as Amegar Slope or Copenhill, this facility has all of the above and claims to be the incinerator with the most advanced pollution controls in the world.

God Fingers Over the Baltic Sea (10 May 2019)

This was one of the last views as we sailed away from Copenhagen. Tomorrow night, we’ll be docked in Sweden and the Day 5 story will come from Stockholm.