Port of Cienfuegos

Here are many previous posts in this series.  If you have photos of a port I’ve not yet featured, please send them along.

Today’s port might be one you’ve not heard of.  To tell the truth, neither had I until I had the opportunity to sail into it.  Faro Luna marks the east end of the entrance to the port.  The first classic car I saw–a bright aqua 1953 Ford–sped along a road behind the lighthouse.

After a winding entrance of several miles, the large bay opens up, showing in the east the foothills of the Escambray Mountains.

Bustein is a small aggregate carrier that shuttles between southern Cuba and the Caymans.

5 de Septiembre was the first tugboat I saw, not long after anchoring.

Here is XII Festival pushing oil barge PT 400 Z.

A light tanker Kalikratis waited at anchor.

Several small craft skittered across the bay, this one for passengers and

these probably headed outside to fish.

Nearer the port was a scrapyard

and some older tugs (l to r) Titan and II Frente Oriental.  If I read this right, Titan was built east of Moscow on a tributary of the Volga River.  II Frente Oriental is also Russian built.

Perla del Sur is Cuban built from 2007,

whereas Tormenta 1, 2004, comes from Romania.

Here both Perla del Sur and Tormenta 1 head out at dusk for an assist.

And with this post, chugster has returned to the tugster label, and in the next post, intends to return to the sixth boro.