Elblag Ostroda Canal

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25 June 2017

The reason we stayed at Elblag is because it is the Northern terminus of the 82 k canal which links several lakes and finishes in the town of Ostroda. The canal needed to climb 100m in a 10km stretch and to achieve this the engineers built a series of 5 slipways up which boats are dragged on a rail-mounted trolley working on the principle of a funicular. We drove to one of the slipways and were fortunate to see a couple of pleasure boats using the facility.

Then it was a 150k drive to the lake district in the north eastern corner of Poland where we met up with the rest of the group who are doing the Baltic States tour.

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