Elbag Canal Lift - Poland

Photo sources and links:

http://www.emazury.com/index.php?JEZ=pl&LIS=miasta&MENU=elblag&GL=fotogaleria_katy1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbl%C4%85g_Canal

http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/book-4299

http://poland.pl/poland/1,125610,11601149,The_best_in_Poland__the_Ostroda_Elblag_Canal.html


Description by Monty Python's Michael Palin:

The canal appears to have come to a dead end. A grassy hill lies ahead of us, and that's all. Then, after a certain amount of barked instructions, a bell sounds and the 'Labedz' finds herself in the grip of an underwater iron cradle and, gradually lifted from the water on the end of a steel cable, she emerges onto dry land, like some great creature from the deep, dripping slime and weeds. Secured in our trolley, which is mounted on rails, we gather on deck to look in disbelief at our ship's stately progress up the hill. A family working in the fields below barely acknowledge a boat sailing at 45 degrees up a slope above them. 

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