Klaipeda & the Curonian Spit

[Manfred M]

A few more images from an afternoon spent wandering around in this part of Lithuania. on a whirlwind tour my daughter and I had in the Baltic States this past May.

Klaipeda is a seaport city and the third largest city in Lithuania. It sits just a few kilometers / miles from the Russian border (Kaliningrad) and the Curonian Spit is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, just a short ferry ride across the Curonian Lagoon.


1. The sand dunes of the Curonian Spit and the Baltic Sea looking towards the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast, which starts not far past the tower in the image.





2. The border between Lithuania and Russia.





3. This fox was watching us....





4. This small car and passenger ferry is the way one gets from Klaipeda to the Curonian Spit. The spit can be seen in the background.





5. A few NATO minesweepers seem to be in port.





6. The container port takes up a lot of the waterfront in Klaipeda.

[Shadowman]

Nice series, cool capture of the fox.

[Geoff F]

Some nice skies.

[Ziggy]

Nice series. Interesting to see a fox walking the streets in daylight hours.

[Wavelength]

Excellent set of images.... is that fox on city roads?

[joebranko]

Excellent images. Was the fox waiting on the ferry?

[Manfred M]

The fox showed up just before I took the shot of the border post, so it is really out in a wilderness area several km / miles from the nearest settlement. The road is the same one that one sees in the image of the border post, and in fact it was taken from the same spot from where I had parked the car.

My daughter and I wondered if this was a special agent employed by either the Russians or Lithuanians to check out suspicious activity that close to the border...

[chauncey]

You do have a way of making it seem so easy to get great shots.

[Manfred M]

You do have a way of making it seem so easy to get great shots.

Don't forget I only post ones that are good.