Canal Trip in Amsterdam and first day on water Day 3 - September 22, 2024
We started the day off by taking a canal boat ride on a tour of the canals of Amsterdam. Steve and Nan, Jim and Bertie, Denny and Becky We left the boat and traveled on the IJ Canal to the Prinsengracht (Prince Ditch). Our guide told us the canals in Amsterdam were developed to perform three main functions. 1) they carry off the excess water from the city 2) they were used as defense to protect the city 3) they move people and merchandise around the city As we entered the city he told us about the Bubble Barrier. It was developed to prevent all the garbage from the city from following into the sea. The bubbles act as a barrier for the floating trash to be stopped and then funneled to the side where it is deposited and collected to be thrown away. He told us that the Amsterdam canals together are 62 miles long and have 5200 bridges spanning them. The average canal is only eight feet deep. Every year they fish approximately 10,000 bikes out of the water. There a