If they did teach us in school about the Continental Divides all those years ago I sure do not recall it, and then maybe they did and I just wasn't paying attention. So my lack of attention at Geography lessons has come back to bite me as when we passed this significant landmark, I of coarse didn't know which rivers were flowing at this European Watershed... but I was not the only who was a bit in the dark. Put is simply to me a Continental Divide is a drainage divide which separate the major river basins. The Main-Rhine flowing into the North Sea, the Danube into the Black Sea and the Po draining into the Mediterranean Adriatic Sea. So far we have been cruising the Rhine and Main Rivers and the rivers on this side of the divide drain out to the North Sea. But pass this granite wall which symbolizes the "Continental Divide" and when our ship started stepping down from the Bachhausen lock to reach the Danube the rivers flow out to the black sea.
So that's it...history in a cement block.
Thanks for coming with us, Bob & Leslee
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