Along the trail of the Reserve

• We start our cruise at the Zefir boat harbour at the premises of the Buczyniec Slipway.
• Then, after approximately 200 m, the vessel enters a larry car. The boat on the car is pulled out of the water along the railway rails with the help of hydraulic devices. We cover a 490 m long route on dry land from the top of the longest Buczyniec Slipway to the bottom, where we descend by nearly 21 m.
• We sail out of the larry car to cover about 2 km along the waterway of the Elbląg Canal to the next Slipway – Kąty – where the boat is parked on a larry car for the second time. This time, the dry land transport is 404 m long and the decrease in height is nearly 19 m.
• After leaving the larry car, the boat travels by water again to other slipways: Oleśnica, about 480 m long and 24 m high, being the highest; Jelenie, 433 m long and 22 m high; the last of the five slipways, Całuny, about 350 m long and 13 m high.
• Behind Całuny, the boat covers a route of about 10 km along the Elbląg Canal, and then steers into Drużno Lake. It is situated lower than the Buczyniec slipway by nearly 100 m and has been a fauna reserve since 1966. In the past, the lake was a former fragment of a bay. Nearly 210 species of water and marsh birds can be observed in the reserve, 7 of which are listed in the Polish Red Book.
• The passengers can use the binoculars available on board to admire these beautiful views.
• The last stage of the cruise is the Elbląg River, where a spectacular show of the opening of one of the two drawbridges awaits us. Then the trip ends at the Zygmunt August Boulevard in the Old Town in Elbląg.
• In total, during our cruise along the Elbląg Canal we covered nearly 40 km and descended nearly 100 m above sea level from the start point of the cruise. To illustrate, this height is approximately as much as the tower of St Nicholas's Cathedral, opposite which we finished our cruise by boat on the grass.