Daily sunrise photo

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise will be a sequence of 2 photos,  taken about 15 minutes apart.  It is from my 2017 5-ship plus Iguazu combination.  On March 11 the Crystal Serenity visited Ihla Grande, Brazil.  It started with some nice early morning color:

 

 

The sun actually emerged about 15 minutes later:

 

 

Roy

[Host Hattie]

Beautiful photos

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my last cruise.  One year ago on March 12, 2020 Queen Mary 2 was at sea from Adelaide to Busselton:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my 2018 Crystal 2-ship World Cruise.  On March 13, the Crystal Symphony was in Rarotonga:

 

 

Roy

[bluemarble]

I'll contribute a March 13 sunrise photo. This is from this morning's QV bridge webcam showing QV at the QEII terminal in Southampton.

 

[bluemarble]

And now I can add a March 13 sunset photo as well, captured a few minutes ago from the QM2 bridge webcam. This is the view from QM2 anchored in the vicinity of Torquay.

 

Edited March 13, 2021 by bluemarble

[rafinmd]

It is March 15 in Australia.  Today's sunrise is my last from the deck of a ship.  One year ago today Queen Mary 2 was docked in Fremantle, Australia.  A couple hours after I took this photo the other shoe dropped and I started packing feverishly:

 

 

Roy

 

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my first combination of cruises, Crystal Symphony Los Angeles  to Sydney and then a Queen Victoria World Cruise segment Bangkok to Dubai.  I haven't posted from this segment for some time since Symphony had a long run of bad weather but on March 15 she was starting to break free while getting somewhat closer to Sydney:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today is March 17 in Australia.  Today's sunrise is from my 2020 QM2 World Cruise.  It was taken on my morning walk in Fremantle:

 

 

Cunard had put me up at the Pan Pacific hotel:

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from one of my close to home cruises, in this case a B2B on Grandeur of the Seas out of Baltimore.  On St. Patrick's Day in 2015 we visited Nassau:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

My next 2 sunrises will be the last I have taken on the road.  There was quite a spectacular sunrise on March 18, apparently taken from my hotel in Fremantle after disembarking QM2.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

It is now 1 year since I took a sunrise photo while traveling.  Later in the day I left the hotel Cunard supplied and flew to Sydney, Dallas, and finally home:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Sunrises come in all kinds and sometimes the moment itself is a disappointment but the best part is ahead of time as happened on MS Prinsendam 2 years ago:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my 2014 Crystal Symphony/Serenity/Amsterdam combination Bali to Singapore to Cape Town to Ft. Lauderdale.  On March 21 Crystal Serenity was at sea from Mauritius to Durban:

 

 

Roy

 

[bluemarble]

I'll contribute this QV bridge webcam image from the vicinity of Torquay showing today's sunset. Not a particularly outstanding sunset, but QM2 (and Ventura) made it into the shot, so that's a bonus.

 

[sfred]

Nice bridge cam capture - thanks!  Interesting that QV and QM2 appear to be roughly perpendicular to each other, while Ventura and QM2 are approximately parallel.  I wonder what combination of wind and/or tide might have enabled that? 

[bluemarble]

13 minutes ago, sfred said:

Nice bridge cam capture - thanks!  Interesting that QV and QM2 appear to be roughly perpendicular to each other, while Ventura and QM2 are approximately parallel.  I wonder what combination of wind and/or tide might have enabled that? 

 

It does seem to be somewhat serendipitous as to how the various ships will be aligned with each other at the precise moment the webcam image is captured. As I've been watching the bridge webcams lately, in those instances where other ships are visible, sometimes they all appear to be parallel to each other as one would expect, but about as often as not, one of them ends up nearly perpendicular to the others. No particular rhyme or reason to the pattern that I've been able to discern at any rate.

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my 2018 Crystal 2-ship World cruise.  On  March 22 Crystal Symphony was at sea from Fakarava to Nuka Hiva.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my crazy combination of 5 ships (Koningsdam-Crystal Serenity-Zaandam-Carnival Inspiration-Crystal Symphony in 2017.  On March 23 the Zaandam visited Montevideo:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my close to home Grandeur of the Seas B2B.  On March 24, 2015 we were at Sea from Baltimore to Cozumel on the second leg.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my 2014 3-ship combination from Bali to Ft. Lauderdale.  On March 25 Crystal Serenity was at sea from Durban to Port Elizabeth:

 

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Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my 2003 round the world attempt featuring the trans Siberian railroad.  On March 26 the freighter Canmar Courage was approaching my destination of Antwerp.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

This is my final sunrise from my 2019 Grand South America and Antarctica cruise.  I was almost home as Amtrak's Silver Meteor was midway between Richmond and Washington DC.

 

 

Roy

[sfred]

On 3/26/2021 at 9:41 PM, rafinmd said:

Today's sunrise is from my 2003 round the world attempt featuring the trans Siberian railroad.  On March 26 the freighter Canmar Courage was approaching my destination of Antwerp.

 

 

Roy

 

For just a moment I thought Cunard was welding more cabins onto the upper decks of QV/QE/QM2.  😃 

 

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my first combination of cruises and the first time I did a live thread on Cruise Critic.  It was Crystal Symphony Los Angeles to Sydney followed by a Queen Victoria World Cruise segment Bangkok to Dubai.  On March 28, 2010, Queen Victoria was at sea from Phuket to Cochin:

 

 

Roy