And We're Off!!

Entering the Lock

 Hey!

Draining the Water

Today we left to go out into the open ocean!  In order to get out from where we were docked, we had to go under a couple of drawbridges and one lock.  That's what is in the pictures you see here.  A lock is used to accomodate differences in water height between two areas.  The water that we were going into was lower than the water that we were in.  So we entered the lock and the water was drained until we reached the level of the water we were going in to.  As you can see in the second picture, it was much lower!  So far the seas haven't been bad- but we only got into open ocean a couple hours ago.

Bye for now,
Meg