Boats, boats, boats

Everyone knows Venice is all about boats, but we discovered the extent what boats do in Venice and what you can do while piloting a boat.

First, some lovely general Venice boating scenes.

A gondolier


We guessed that this is an apprentice gondolier in training due to the light blue stripes since 99% of the gondoliers we saw had black and white stripes.


Gondola parking


A close up of the gondolier's oar and handle for the oar during our Grand Canal crossing





Now for things boat do in Venice that you might now have thought about:

Have traffic jams


Deliver packages


That's a UPS boat.


Be the police (we saw ambulance boats too but didn't get a picture).


Deliver more packages. Here's a DHL boat.


Crane things onto land from the water.


Finally, here are a few things you can do while piloting a boat.

Talk on your cell phone.





If another boat is in the place that your taxi boat needs to drop off your customers, just tie onto that boat and escort your customers across the other boat to land.





And finally, of course, you can text.


Ah Venezia.