Rare Essiesmom Posted July 11, 2021 #3551 Share Posted July 11, 2021 22 hours ago, sfred said: That implies Indonesia. Unfortunately there are 18 unseen ports in Indonesia on the list. I glanced through all of them (admittedly without a thorough search in each one), but could not find an exact match. The closest I could find to the general terrain was Bitung, so I'll submit that as my guess for the day. It is not in Indonesia nor the Philippines. EM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted July 11, 2021 #3552 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Ah ha - found at last. I've used up my turn for today, so I will save @Essiesmom's very elusive port for tomorrow unless other eyes identify it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palmeat Posted July 11, 2021 #3553 Share Posted July 11, 2021 12 hours ago, sfred said: A sunny warm winter Sunday morning dawning here in Brisbane, so a new turn in CruiseCritic. This is Sheerness England. I trust that all the cars at the BCA yard aren't waiting for an imminent Cunard arrival. 🙂 Greetings to Brisbane! Well done @sfred - Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey is correct. Without wishing to offend its residents, it's not the prettiest place!😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted July 11, 2021 #3554 Share Posted July 11, 2021 11 hours ago, sfred said: Ah ha - found at last. I've used up my turn for today, so I will save @Essiesmom's very elusive port for tomorrow unless other eyes identify it before. I'm eagerly awaiting your reveal of that location in a few hours, @sfred. I have to admit complete and utter defeat attempting to identify that photo even after working on it some more this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted July 11, 2021 #3555 Share Posted July 11, 2021 On 7/3/2021 at 4:04 AM, Essiesmom said: Good morning everyone! This very elusive port is Vava'u Tonga. The photo was taken from the Mt. Talau national park. There's a photo in google maps of a small wooden observation deck where @Essiesmommay have stood. This one took a long time to identify! A very good challenge indeed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted July 11, 2021 #3556 Share Posted July 11, 2021 8 minutes ago, sfred said: Good morning everyone! This very elusive port is Vava'u Tonga. The photo was taken from the Mt. Talau national park. There's a photo in google maps of a small wooden observation deck where @Essiesmommay have stood. This one took a long time to identify! A very good challenge indeed. Great job, @sfred! Don't know how I managed to miss that one since it's clear now after you've pointed it out. But that's how it always works once you know the answer, doesn't it? That was indeed a good challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted July 11, 2021 #3557 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I'm going to throw another curve ball with this contribution of mine today. This is a public domain image of a port that's not on our unseen ports list. I remembered reading on this forum about this being a replacement port for one of the current Cunard ships. And no, I don't mean the dry dock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted July 11, 2021 #3558 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember reading about that too. The ship’s obvious, and not a million miles from ‘home’. I think she’s taken a short trip across the river to Bayonne, New Jersey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted July 11, 2021 #3559 Share Posted July 11, 2021 3 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said: Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember reading about that too. The ship’s obvious, and not a million miles from ‘home’. I think she’s taken a short trip across the river to Bayonne, New Jersey. Quite right. QM2 called at Bayonne, New Jersey on September 30, 2006. Apparently there were three other cruise ships in Manhattan that day and Crown Princess was in Brooklyn, so QM2 ended up at the Cape Liberty cruise terminal in Bayonne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starboardhome Posted July 12, 2021 #3560 Share Posted July 12, 2021 No prizes for guessing the location of this photo but the conversation regarding Bayonne and Manhattan cruise terminals prompted me to look up one of my favorite photos, which I took from Weehawken, New Jersey. The date was April 25, 2004 and QM2 and QE2 were berthed together in New York. They were an impressive sight. I think this was the first and last time they were alongside each other in New York. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted July 12, 2021 #3561 Share Posted July 12, 2021 48 minutes ago, Starboardhome said: No prizes for guessing the location of this photo but the conversation regarding Bayonne and Manhattan cruise terminals prompted me to look up one of my favorite photos, which I took from Weehawken, New Jersey. The date was April 25, 2004 and QM2 and QE2 were berthed together in New York. They were an impressive sight. I think this was the first and last time they were alongside each other in New York. Nice photo, @Starboardhome. I hope one day I'll have a chance to arrive or depart on QM2 from the Manhattan piers. I imagine there's a sense of history that Brooklyn can't quite match. (Of course, at the moment I'd welcome any chance to be back on Q-M2/V/E anywhere in the world.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted July 12, 2021 #3562 Share Posted July 12, 2021 This may be a good time for an update to our unseen ports list. According to my tally we only need three more photos to reach 500 ports seen on this thread. Cunard ports not seen yet on the "Where in the World?" thread Aarhus, Denmark Abaco, Bahamas Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire Aden, Yemen Agadir, Morocco Aghios Nikolaos, Crete Aguilas, Spain Aitutaki, Cook Islands Akita, Japan Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia Al Manama, Bahrain Al Mukalla, Yemen Alanya, Turkey Almeria, Spain Alotau, Papua New Guinea Altea, Spain Ambon, Indonesia Anavilhanas Archipelago, Brazil Angra dos Reis, Brazil Anjouan, Comoros Antofagasta, Chile Anzac Cove, Turkey Apra, Guam Arendal, Norway Bahia Blanca, Argentina Balholm/Balestrand, Norway Bangor, Northern Ireland Baubau, Indonesia Belawan, Indonesia Biak, Indonesia Bitung, Indonesia Bodo, Norway Bom Bom Island, Sao Tome and Principe Bornholm, Denmark Brindisi, Italy Cadaques, Spain Cape York QLD, Australia Cap-Haitien, Haiti Carriacou, Grenada Grenadines Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic Castro, Chile Cebu, Philippines Ceuta, Spanish Morocco Chennai, India Christiansoe, Denmark Christmas Island, Kiribati Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo Collioure, France Conflict Islands, Papua New Guinea Cooktown QLD, Australia Daba Al-Hisn, Oman Dalian, China Davao, Philippines Deboyne Lagoon, Papua New Guinea Delos, Greece Desroches, Seychelles Diego Suarez/Antsiranana, Madagascar Djibouti, Djibouti Drottningholm, Sweden Dun Laoghaire, Ireland Dunmore East, Ireland Easter Island, Chile Esmeraldas, Ecuador Exmouth WA, Australia Figueira da Foz, Portugal Florianopolis, Brazil Formentera Island, Balearic Islands Freetown, Sierra Leone Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain Galapagos Islands, Ecuador Galveston, Texas Georgetown, Ascension Island Gilbert Islands, Kiribati Glengarriff, Ireland Gloucester, Massachusetts Goa, India Godthaab, Greenland Grundarfjordur, Iceland Guangzhou, China Guayaquil, Ecuador Gudvangen, Norway Hakodate, Japan Hammerfest, Norway Hanko, Finland Haugesund, Norway Hayman Island QLD, Australia Heimaey, Iceland Hilton Head, South Carolina Hodeidah, Yemen Holsteinborg, Greenland Homer, Alaska Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Ilhabela, Brazil Isle of Pines, New Caledonia Isola di Ponza, Italy Jakobshavn, Greenland Jedda, Saudi Arabia Jeju-do, South Korea Kagoshima, Japan Kanazawa, Japan Kangean Islands, Indonesia Karachi, Pakistan Karpathos, Greece Kerteminde, Denmark Khasab, Oman Khor Al Fa Kkan, UAE Kingston, Jamaica Kiriwina, Papua New Guinea Kitakyushu, Japan Kos, Greece Kristiansund, Norway Kuantan, Malaysia Kuwait City, Kuwait Kyrenia, Cyprus La Digue, Seychelles La Guaira, Venezuela Labadie Shores, Haiti Laccadive Islands, India Lae, Papua New Guinea Lamu, Kenya L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland Larantuka, Indonesia Lautoka, Fiji Lome, Togo Low Island QLD, Australia Lyngseidet, Norway Mahajanga, Madagascar Majuro, Marshall Islands Malacca, Malaysia Mamoudzou, Mayotte Manfredonia, Italy Mar del Plata, Argentina Mariefred, Sweden Marmaris, Turkey Marstrand, Sweden Mas a Tierra/Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile Massawa, Eritrea Mazatlan, Mexico Molokai, Hawaii Molyvos, Greece Montserrat, British Overseas Territories Moroni, Comoros Motril, Spain Mtwara, Tanzania Muara, Brunei Nagoya, Japan Naha, Okinawa, Japan Nessebar, Bulgaria Nevis, St Kitts and Nevis Norheimsund, Norway Nosy Komba, Madagascar Noumea, New Caledonia Ofotfjord, Norway Olbia, Sardinia Opatija, Croatia Orpheus Island QLD, Australia Oye, Norway Palm Beach, Florida Palm Island, St Vincent and the Grenadines Palopo, Indonesia Patras, Greece Pekalongan, Indonesia Pohnpei/Ponape, Micronesia Ponce, Puerto Rico Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela Porquerolles, France Port Antonio, Jamaica Port Arthur TAS, Australia Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Port Denarau, Fiji Port Douglas QLD, Australia Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Port Sudan, Sudan Port Vila, Vanuatu Port-au-Prince, Haiti Portland, Maine Porto Cervo, Sardinia Portofino, Italy Portoroz, Slovenia Porto-Vecchio, Corsica Praslin, Seychelles Prickly Pear Cays, Anguilla Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Puerto Chacabuco, Chile Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Pulau Bawean, Indonesia Pulau Naira, Indonesia Pulau Nias, Indonesia Pulau Pangkor, Malaysia Pulau Pelangi, Indonesia Pulau Penuba, Indonesia Punta del Este, Uruguay Puri, India Qingdao/Tsingtao, China Qinhuangdao, China Rarotonga, Cook Islands Rijeka, Croatia Ringaskiddy, Ireland Rockland, Maine Rugen Island, Germany Saipan, Mariana Islands Sakaiminato, Japan Salaverry, Peru Samana, Dominican Republic Sanary-Sur-Mer, France Santa Marta, Colombia Santana, Brazil Santo Antonio, Portugal Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Santo Tomas de Castilla, Guatemala Sanya, China Seogwipo, South Korea Sepa Island, Indonesia Sevastopol, Crimea Seven Spirit Bay NT, Australia Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt Sibenik, Croatia Sibolga, Indonesia Sihanoukville, Cambodia Skagen, Denmark Skarsvag, Norway Skiathos, Greece Skjolden, Norway Skopelos, Greece Skyros, Greece Sokhna, Egypt Sopot, Poland St Malo, France St Pierre, Newfoundland St Raphael, France Surabaya, Indonesia Suva, Fiji Symi, Greece Syracuse, Sicily Takoradi, Ghana Talcahuano, Chile Tamatave/Toamasina, Madagascar Tarragona, Spain Thessalonika, Greece Thiruvananthapuram, India Tianjin, China Tobago Cays, St Vincent and the Grenadines Tristan da Cunha, British Overseas Territories Tunis (La Goulette), Tunisia Tuticorin, India Varna, Bulgaria Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands Vitoria, Brazil Vung Tau, Vietnam Waingapu, Indonesia Wilmington, North Carolina Wrangell, Alaska Xingang, China Yantai, China Yatsushiro, Japan Ytterdal/Eidsdal, Norway Zamboanga, Philippines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starboardhome Posted July 12, 2021 #3563 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Bluemarble - thank you. It is very helpful to have the updated list. I think the photo I submitted of Mormugao should allow Goa to be removed however. According to the Cunard itinerary for my 2019 voyage, Mormugao is the listed port for Goa. I have one more "unseen port" in my photo archives which I will submit later today. We will then be down to just one short of 500. Thank you again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted July 12, 2021 #3564 Share Posted July 12, 2021 12 minutes ago, Starboardhome said: I think the photo I submitted of Mormugao should allow Goa to be removed however. According to the Cunard itinerary for my 2019 voyage, Mormugao is the listed port for Goa. Hi Starboardhome, While Mormugao is certainly the port used by the current fleet we discussed this a while back: On 5/5/2021 at 4:56 PM, Colin_Cameron said: Goa: I've found calls by Sea Goddess I on 25th Apr '97 and SGII on 20th Apr and 6th Nov '98, and 5th Mar '99 but there's no further information than 'Goa'. There are photos on the web of boats that look bigger than the Goddesses on the Mandovi River so it looks possible. so I think it was decided at that point to leave them both on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted July 12, 2021 #3565 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Somehow I'd missed this port on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starboardhome Posted July 12, 2021 #3566 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Thanks for the clarification Colin_Cameron. Apologies for the confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted July 12, 2021 #3567 Share Posted July 12, 2021 29 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said: Somehow I'd missed this port on the list. Oh, good. A port I can identify today to get back in the groove. I think this one is Skjolden, Norway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted July 12, 2021 #3568 Share Posted July 12, 2021 16 minutes ago, bluemarble said: I think this one is Skjolden, Norway. And the ship?😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted July 12, 2021 #3569 Share Posted July 12, 2021 40 minutes ago, Starboardhome said: Thanks for the clarification Colin_Cameron. Apologies for the confusion. No problem. The only confusion is not knowing if the Sea Goddesses went into the city or not, although they do seem capable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted July 12, 2021 #3570 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Just now, Colin_Cameron said: And the ship?😁 I figured you might ask that. 😉 That could be a challenge given how small the image of ship is in that photo. I'll start working on that a bit later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palmeat Posted July 12, 2021 #3571 Share Posted July 12, 2021 47 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said: And the ship?😁 Looks like one of Fred Olsen's ships - either Black Watch or Boudicca (formerly Royal Viking Star/Sky)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted July 12, 2021 #3572 Share Posted July 12, 2021 3 hours ago, Palmeat said: Looks like one of Fred Olsen's ships - either Black Watch or Boudicca (formerly Royal Viking Star/Sky)? Boudicca it is. I can’t tell them apart either and certainly not at that resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted July 12, 2021 #3573 Share Posted July 12, 2021 As we approach the milestone of 500 ports, here's a public domain contribution from another road trip. I think this is the last port on our list that I have visited on a driving adventure. A hint if needed is that this port has been the site of many tragedies, most long ago but one comparatively recent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted July 13, 2021 Author #3574 Share Posted July 13, 2021 That's Port Arthur, Tasmania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted July 13, 2021 #3575 Share Posted July 13, 2021 53 minutes ago, Host Hattie said: That's Port Arthur, Tasmania. Correct! That makes 499 ports. Where will be number 500? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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