This is what showed on our GPS as we drove along route 215 and into Wladyslawowo. The water looked so close that I figured we should be able to walk over and take one last look at the Baltic Sea.
Sure enough, a turnout appeared and we parked and after a short walk, we were at the shore. 
The main dune is being protected and restored here using gabions, large wire baskets filled with heavy stones.
Using the GPS, we drove directly to our hotel in Gdansk. We use the “Lonely Planet” as our main guide, so I had an address for a hotel and had no trouble finding it and driving in the city was not a problem. After checking in we hopped a bus and headed down to old town to just get the lay of the land. Here are some shots of what we found.
I wanted to particularly find the old crane, built in the mid-15th century it served to move heavy cargos directly onto or off the vessels.
The dark part of the structure extends out over the water and has a block and pulley arrangement at the top. It was powered by two large wheels on which people walked like a treadmill. 
It could hoist loads of up to 2000 kg. (over 2 tons). It suffered considerable damage in 1945, but was carefully rebuilt and it’s the only relic of it’s kind in the world.
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