Close to the port.

The Stavanger port office have several of these gifts from ships that have visited our city.

Crowded.

Sometimes it is quite crowded at the harbour.
Another nice hot day today.
+30C

SKOLESKIPET SJØKURS

I have had a nice tour around the school ship SJØKURS (Normally based in Kristiansand), where 60 young people can start their maritime education.
From time to time they are out on the open sea.
They had just been to Bergen, and this weekend they are visiting Stavanger.
Visitors were allowed onboard with guided tours.
My guide was Jack Hanche, from Horten. I had a nice and interesting tour.
The ship used to be part of the old Hurtigruten, as "Ragnvald Jarl"

SKANDI FLORA.

SKANDI FLORA is huge!
She is a Supply Vessel,
mainly at work out in the North Sea.

Coat of Arms.

Here you see the Coat of Arms for Stavanger, at the harbour area.

A true sign of SUMMER is more activity around the port.

It is a sign of summer when all the cruise ships arrive.

Here is the "Aida" from Germany.

It was not that warm but it was sunny, so I guess the tourists were happy to take a look around Stavanger.

There are so many cruise ships in and out of the harbor.

Here you can see "Norwegian Jade" and "MSC Orchestra".

There are more cruise-ships coming to Stavanger this year than ever before.

Today I walked around the harbour with my camera together with quite an international group of tourists. One Canadian guy was eager to find and take some photos of the Cathedral, and he was in a real hurry because he had to be back at the ship in 20 minutes to join a 3 hours guided tour by bus. Anyway, it is a lovely day, and the temperature was also good, so I hope they all had a nice time in and around Stavanger.

The picture is of the "Tahitian Princess" and is taken from the "Valberg tower."

Info from the port :

http://www.stavanger-havn.no/cruiseanlop.asp?id=963