exlondoner Posted February 21 #5251 Share Posted February 21 Vigo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted February 21 #5252 Share Posted February 21 That looks quite big, so might be a Northern Bottlenose? I'd like to suggest one of the east-coast Scottish ports, Invergordon, or maybe South Queensferry/Newhaven. The apparent weather conditions, dull and overcast, would fit there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sogne Posted February 21 #5253 Share Posted February 21 1 hour ago, exlondoner said: Vigo? No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sogne Posted February 21 #5254 Share Posted February 21 53 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said: That looks quite big, so might be a Northern Bottlenose? I'd like to suggest one of the east-coast Scottish ports, Invergordon, or maybe South Queensferry/Newhaven. The apparent weather conditions, dull and overcast, would fit there as well. Close but no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExArkie Posted February 22 #5255 Share Posted February 22 19 hours ago, Colin_Cameron said: That looks quite big, so might be a Northern Bottlenose? I'd like to suggest one of the east-coast Scottish ports, Invergordon, or maybe South Queensferry/Newhaven. The apparent weather conditions, dull and overcast, would fit there as well. We saw the resident bottlenose in the Firth of Moray several years ago when we were last in the area, which had us near your home of Inverness. Not being able to identify individual dolphins by sight, I do not know if this is the same one that we saw. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sogne Posted February 22 #5256 Share Posted February 22 11 minutes ago, ExArkie said: We saw the resident bottlenose in the Firth of Moray several years ago when we were last in the area, which had us near your home of Inverness. Not being able to identify individual dolphins by sight, I do not know if this is the same one that we saw. try west coast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted February 22 #5257 Share Posted February 22 23 minutes ago, sogne said: try west coast Stornaway? Am I too early for my second guess? Sorry. I’m probably wrong so it won’t matter. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sogne Posted February 22 #5258 Share Posted February 22 8 minutes ago, exlondoner said: Stornaway? Am I too early for my second guess? Sorry. I’m probably wrong so it won’t matter. 😀 further south this port is visited every year by Cunard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanky Lad Posted February 22 #5259 Share Posted February 22 4 hours ago, sogne said: further south this port is visited every year by Cunard Greenock? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sogne Posted February 22 #5260 Share Posted February 22 1 hour ago, Lanky Lad said: Greenock? Correct they put on quite a show. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted February 25 #5261 Share Posted February 25 The following three posts contain photos of three new unseen ports! All maiden calls. Two are on our unseen list, and one is not. I'll call them port A B and C. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted February 25 #5262 Share Posted February 25 (edited) Port A Edited February 25 by sfred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted February 25 #5263 Share Posted February 25 (edited) Port B Edited February 25 by sfred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted February 25 #5264 Share Posted February 25 (edited) Port C Edited February 25 by sfred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted February 26 #5265 Share Posted February 26 I'll go ahead and identify Port B. That's Lifou, New Caledonia. I think the third photo for that port is showing us the Chapelle Notre Dame de Lourdes on the hilltop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted February 26 #5266 Share Posted February 26 (edited) 35 minutes ago, bluemarble said: I'll go ahead and identify Port B. That's Lifou, New Caledonia. I think the third photo for that port is showing us the Chapelle Notre Dame de Lourdes on the hilltop. That's correct @bluemarble! QE's maiden call to Lifou. This was the replacement for Isle of Pines in the itinerary change a few months back. And the third photo is indeed the Chapelle Notre Dame. A bit smaller than the Paris one. The photo of QE in the second picture was taken from the Chapelle hilltop. Here also is the Chapelle itself. Edited February 26 by sfred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NE John Posted February 26 #5267 Share Posted February 26 “C” is recent call to Louganville, Vanuatu. I may have found a match from picture #2 of Photo 😄 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted February 26 #5268 Share Posted February 26 10 minutes ago, NE John said: “C” is recent call to Louganville, Vanuatu. I may have found a match from picture #2 of Photo 😄 Congratulations @NE John. Port C is indeed today's maiden QE call to Louganville Vanuatu. Good find on the photo from the similar vantage point. Quite a bit of the town, port, and airport infrastructure dates from WW2. The third photo is Million Dollar beach, taken during QE's sailin this morning. The beach and adjacent seabed contains equipment abandoned after the war and left to rust away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExArkie Posted February 26 #5269 Share Posted February 26 Assuming Port A would be in the same neighborhood as the other two, I got a good match on the third photo to the Iririki Island Resort, which is also in Vanuatu. The island is in the harbor for Port Via, which appears to be a cruise stop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExArkie Posted February 26 #5270 Share Posted February 26 13 hours ago, bluemarble said: I'll go ahead and identify Port B. That's Lifou, New Caledonia. I think the third photo for that port is showing us the Chapelle Notre Dame de Lourdes on the hilltop. This one I knew immediately, since I have my own photo taken from approximately the same location as the third picture. (it was a Pacific voyage on Celebrity for us.) You just beat me to it...by more than twelve hours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted February 26 #5271 Share Posted February 26 3 hours ago, ExArkie said: Assuming Port A would be in the same neighborhood as the other two, I got a good match on the third photo to the Iririki Island Resort, which is also in Vanuatu. The island is in the harbor for Port Vila, which appears to be a cruise stop. Correct! Port A is Port Vila Vanuatu from our maiden QE call on Sunday 25 Feb. And the third photo is indeed Iririki Island adjacent to the city. With each of these three ports now identified, here are the cover pages from the daily programmes. I'm told we also received maiden call plaques for the wall collection on deck 10 by the Commodore Club but they haven't been hung yet as of this morning. I did find the plaque from QE's recent call at Port Lincoln SA. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NE John Posted February 26 #5272 Share Posted February 26 48 minutes ago, sfred said: Correct! Port A is Port Vila Vanuatu from our maiden QE call on Sunday 25 Feb. And the third photo is indeed Iririki Island adjacent to the city. With each of these three ports now identified, here are the cover pages from the daily programmes. I'm told we also received maiden call plaques for the wall collection on deck 10 by the Commodore Club but they haven't been hung yet as of this morning. I did find the plaque from QE's recent call at Port Lincoln SA. I’ll take a picture of the calls next time and post it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted February 26 #5273 Share Posted February 26 OK, we now have three new ports to add to our seen Cunard ports list. That brings us to a total of 647 by my count. 645. Lifou, New Caledonia 646. Luganville, Vanuatu 647. Port Vila, Vanuatu 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted March 2 #5274 Share Posted March 2 Here are three more ports, D E and F. All are maiden calls for this Cunard ship. Two are on our unseen list. One has been seen, although not from a Cunard ship. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted March 2 #5275 Share Posted March 2 (edited) Port D Edited March 2 by sfred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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