Invergorden, Scotland Sendoff...make SURE to watch for it!

[janmcn]

If you are leaving Invergorden after a port call, make SURE to watch your sendoff by the locals...they almost always (even in the rain in our case) have a local piper and pipe and drum group serenade you as you leave...it will begin after the gangway is drawn up and all are aboard...watch for the lone piper come down the quay...then...the group behind...it's wonderful!!! We would not have known about it if our guide we had for the day hadn't warned us that it would occur.

 

https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-Lrj3q5/i-CwZ25Gw/A

 

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Edited August 13, 2017 by janmcn
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[OldBoot]

That's wonderful! Thank you for sharing. [emoji4]

 

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[janmcn]

Here's a more direct link to the video...I think ;-)

 

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-CwZ25Gw/0/91b3c8dc/640/i-CwZ25Gw-640.mp4

[Reagan0712]

The group in your video was, if I recall correctly, on the dock when we arrived.

When we departed we had the local high school band come down for us. Really nice. They marched up the road and into the parking area.

Edited August 13, 2017 by Reagan0712
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[Krazy Kruizers]

Thanks for all the links -- really wonderful.

[Copper10-8]

The awesome people of Invergordon have been doing this for years :) And, can't forget the pipers at South Queensferry (Edinburgh), Scotland and Halifax, NS, Canada

[rafinmd]

And Hamilton Bermuda.

 

 

Roy

[RJ2002]

Thanks for sharing! Wonderful memories of Invergordon, and our other Norway and Scotland stops, on the Zuiderdam recently. :)

[Copper10-8]

And Hamilton Bermuda.

 

 

Roy

 

Haven't been there for a while, thanks Roy! Does the town crier still show up in St. George?

[rafinmd]

Not sure about the town crier.

 

Roy

[joekerstef]

Haven't been there for a while, thanks Roy! Does the town crier still show up in St. George?

Wow, I was just in Bermuda on Veendam in May and we didn't get that kind of sendoff!

Not sure about when a ship docks in St. George, but we enjoyed the town crier tremendously for the wench dunking at noon.