This morning, we took a trip to the Po River Delta for a wildlife-spotting cruise (lots of birds).
We drove back to Chioggia and boarded the S. S. La Venezia for our final sailing through the Venetian Lagoon and to the port of San Basilio, where we’d begun our trip Sunday afternoon. Louisa, our cruise director, gave us a talk about the lagoon, the rising seas, the tides in Venice, and how they’re trying to keep the water from overwhelming the city (progress has been made, but it is by no means certain that Venice will be saved). I kept getting distracted by the views outside.
The clouds returned late in the day, and the weather forecast is sufficiently uncertain that they cancelled the “Row Venice” excursion that we’d planned on taking tomorrow. We’ll have to walk instead!
