A busy week on the water locally.

The Strait area had a visit from the 322m crude oil tanker Bunga Kasturi Dua which discharged cargo at the Nustar No. 1 berth on Monday the 24th.I managed to get a few aerial photos of it alongside. Quite impressive.

While overtop I spotted the tug Strait Raven ,Superport Marines' newest addition had the barge SPM 125 on the hip and was delivering supplies to the big tanker.

    Waiting in Inhabitants Bay at India anchorage was the crude oil tanker Americas Spirit and it docked after the Bunga Kasturi Dua  departed.

The Nordanhav made another visit to our area to deliver clay to Port Hawkesbury Paper.it seems to be on a six week rotation between the Amazon and the Strait.

The Oktha Bridge docked at the Nustar Inside Berth on the morning of the 26th to load gasoline. 

Shortly after the tanker docked APA pilot Capt. Elias Dorey guided the self-unloading bulker Atlantic Erie alongside the Strait Superport dock at Mulgrave and discharged a portion of its cargo (17,000 tons) before moving over to the Georgia-Pacific dock at Point Tupper.

Today the tug Evans Mckeil skippered by isle Madames' Capt. Ron Lejeune returned from a trip to prince Edward Island ,transitted Canso Lock with APA Capt. Tony Pierce assisting and docked at the Martin Marietta loading facility in Aulds  Cove to take on another 9000 tons of gravel.the tug Strait Raven with Capt. Earle Tibbo at the wheel  was the assist tug.

The Evans Mckeil and its tow are expected to depart again this evening with a tentative 2200h pilot call in.
At the NS Power coal dock the self=loading bulker Caroline Oldendorff had finished discharging part of its cargo of coal and was taken off the dock by APA Capt. Elias Dorey and will next dock in Sydney to finish unloading.it is expected the caroline Oldendorff will be back in the Strait shortly for a load of gravel from Martin Marietta.