Dad's Day, Narrated By Himself

Hans and I went to see the newest reclaimed from the sea area.  Maasvlakte 2.  It is having it's grand opening today.  It is the latest expansion of the Rotterdam Seaport.  

We went to the end and parked the car along side of the road and walked up to the top of the dyke and stood on top and look out over the North Sea.  Very windy but beautiful, I can understand Mother's love for the North Sea.

The size and scope of the work is very impressive.  We spent the whole day driving around looking at the huge vessels and cranes for unloading container ships; we saw the largest crane vessel that I have ever seen, it was like a mountain floating on the water.  

This is the world's busiest seaport, and extends from the center of Rotterdam out to the sea along the river; there have been many expansions over the years and there are still more to come.  We stopped at the FutureLand exhibit where we saw the process and the equipment used to do the work of taking sand from the North Sea and pumping it into islands and then making dykes and developing the new land, very interesting. Make the sand islands then dig out for the new harbor walls then take out the sand and make the channels.