Feeling the need to walk dinner off, I ended up at the dock near our hotel as one of the car ferries was approaching.
The ferry approaching the dock, with a cross fjord ferry behind it. I was beginning to wonder whether I should start running away from the dock, as the ferry was quite clearly heading right towards me!
Hmmm, seems to be turning a bit - I think the Captain knows what's happening.
Even while the stern is still being secured, the doors on the side are opening. The nearest door is for passengers, the further away for cars and freight.
Getting cars in and out was not easy. The cars leaving here backed in, but the cars coming off backed out. So I'm not really sure what happens to them inside! But there was a right angle bend just inside the car elevator - yes, the car drove onto an elevator, then was lowered a few feet and backed off through the right angle bend further into the ship. This made for slow loading and unloading. The area on the right is for freight, which appeared to be kept on a lower deck, as there was a special freight elevator.
And passengers were using their entrance too, although that was much faster than the car traffic. The green packages on the left were loaded onto the ship later.
Yes, that's another car ferry coming into dock.
And dock right in front of the Kong Harald which docked first.
No trick photography here - these two vessels were quite close to one another. Shows what bow and stern thrusters let you do!
The two ships still docked, almost adjacent to one of the jazz venues. Any music playing would have to stop when the ships blew their whistles - they are very loud!
And so it was time to head back to the hotel (well, it was in the next block!) and start preparing to pack up, as tomorrow we returned to Bergen to spend some time in the city, and we needed to pack and check out from our hotel at a reasonable time, even though it was an afternoon flight.
And thus ended our last full day in Molde.
Afternoon Walk Around Molde
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