bluemarble Posted April 16, 2023 #4676 Share Posted April 16, 2023 11 hours ago, sfred said: Thanks for your recent photo, @NE John. My first thought was Messina also. Here is a webcam screenshot of an already-seen port. Our game's previous contribution for this port (which was not posted by me) was taken from a ship but did not feature a Cunard ship. Sorry for the tilted angle - that's the webcam, not the port. 🙂 I have been neglecting my duties and hadn't been looking for a webcam image at this port! It's not a webcam I was familiar with until now. Looks like this may have been close to a real-time posting. This is Naha, Okinawa where QE departed about seven hours ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NE John Posted April 16, 2023 #4677 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Ugh, I didn’t do a good enough zoom-in to see the back of the ship realizing now it’s not QM2… At least I figured the ship in the webcam is presently sailing on a current voyage. This game is fun! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted April 16, 2023 #4678 Share Posted April 16, 2023 2 hours ago, bluemarble said: I have been neglecting my duties and hadn't been looking for a webcam image at this port! It's not a webcam I was familiar with until now. Looks like this may have been close to a real-time posting. This is Naha, Okinawa where QE departed about seven hours ago. Correct! It was a live webcam of the Naha port area, taken yesterday 16 April during QE's port call. The previous contribution for this port came from @Essiesmom on 17 July 2021, post number 3592. That photo was of the Naha pier, taken from the decks of Star Princess. I was really hoping to find a webcam of QE's recent calls to Hualien Taiwan and Ishigaki Japan, which would have been unseen ports for the game, but I couldn't find any cameras that covered the shipping areas. Ishigaki had a real time camera of a traffic intersection in the centre city, in high definition 4K, and Hualien had several cameras covering nearby parks and walking trails, but nothing at the piers that I could find. 1 hour ago, NE John said: This game is fun! It is rather addictive, isn't it? 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted April 17, 2023 #4679 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Here's another webcam image from my archives showing a Cunard ship at a port we've seen before. There's more detail here than some of my more obscure webcam captures of beach scenes, so hopefully this one is identifiable without too much difficulty. No port cranes to work with this time though. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted April 17, 2023 #4680 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Could it be St. Peter Port, Guernsey? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted April 17, 2023 #4681 Share Posted April 17, 2023 7 minutes ago, exlondoner said: Could it be St. Peter Port, Guernsey? That's correct. That image is from the Victoria Marina webcam found on Nest's webcam page for the Island of Guernsey (at "www.nest.gg"). It shows QV's call at St Peter Port last year on August 2, 2022. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted April 17, 2023 #4682 Share Posted April 17, 2023 And could that be the Commodore Clipper entering the harbour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted April 17, 2023 #4683 Share Posted April 17, 2023 54 minutes ago, exlondoner said: And could that be the Commodore Clipper entering the harbour? I didn't record the other ships in the image at the time. That certainly does look like the Commodore Clipper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted April 17, 2023 #4684 Share Posted April 17, 2023 3 hours ago, bluemarble said: Here's another webcam image from my archives showing a Cunard ship at a port we've seen before. There's more detail here than some of my more obscure webcam captures of beach scenes, so hopefully this one is identifiable without too much difficulty. No port cranes to work with this time though. 🙂 I think I've tracked down the identify of the other cruise ship in this image (to the right of center). That's probably Emerald Princess. She was on a British Isles cruise from Southampton with a call at St Peter Port scheduled for August 2, 2022. And that profile is a pretty good match to Emerald Princess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alc13 Posted April 21, 2023 #4685 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Where is this? If you were there today, you can’t play. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted April 21, 2023 #4686 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Thanks @alc13!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted April 21, 2023 #4687 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Very good, @alc13! That means I didn't need to post this webcam image of your departure showing a VERY distant view of your ship which I've circled in red. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted April 21, 2023 Author #4688 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Here's a port we've seen before, at least this photograph has a ship ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted April 21, 2023 #4689 Share Posted April 21, 2023 7 hours ago, Host Hattie said: Here's a port we've seen before, at least this photograph has a ship ! I haven't figured out the location yet. I'll start by attempting to identify the ship. This looks like one of the Hurtigruten ships. The best match appears to be MS Otto Sverdrup, formerly known as MS Finnmarken until 2020. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted April 22, 2023 Author #4690 Share Posted April 22, 2023 That's correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NE John Posted April 22, 2023 #4691 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Looks like an area with crazy tides, like the Bay of Fundy in Maine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue-B Posted April 22, 2023 #4692 Share Posted April 22, 2023 I’m thinking it looks like Wales maybe…. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted April 22, 2023 Author #4693 Share Posted April 22, 2023 3 minutes ago, Sue-B said: I’m thinking it looks like Wales maybe…. That's correct, it's Wales 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue-B Posted April 22, 2023 #4694 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Beautiful coastline 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted April 22, 2023 #4695 Share Posted April 22, 2023 On 4/21/2023 at 9:27 AM, Host Hattie said: Here's a port we've seen before, at least this photograph has a ship ! 43 minutes ago, Sue-B said: I’m thinking it looks like Wales maybe…. Well, that certainly helps concentrate the search! I can stop looking at ports in Norway and the Hebrides and Orkneys now. There aren't many ports in Wales on our seen ports list. But even better, there is only one port in Wales on the current itineraries for Hurtigruten in general and Otto Sverdrup in particular. From there it took a bit of searching but I eventually found a match for the coastline in this photo at Fishguard, Wales. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted April 22, 2023 Author #4696 Share Posted April 22, 2023 That's correct Fishguard Bay Welcome kindly let me post their photograph. Here's a bonus photograph of MS Maud in Fishguard with added gulls ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted April 22, 2023 #4697 Share Posted April 22, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Host Hattie said: That's correct Fishguard Bay Welcome kindly let me post their photograph. Here's a bonus photograph of MS Maud in Fishguard with added gulls ! Isn’t it extraordinary that herring/heron gulls are supposed to be endangered? There are zillions round here - and, it seems almost everywhere I go on Cunard ships. Edited April 22, 2023 by exlondoner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NE John Posted April 22, 2023 #4698 Share Posted April 22, 2023 I’ll be visiting Cardiff before my June Crossing so hopefully get better bearings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted April 22, 2023 #4699 Share Posted April 22, 2023 It's always good to see new names joining our game. Welcome to @alc13 and @Sue-B! Although we haven't officially identified your current "by request" photo yet @alc13, it's clear several of us have figured it out. I'd also like to make a request for a photo of the port you visited yesterday since that's a new Cunard port we haven't seen yet. There are going to be several other ports on your current itinerary we haven't seen yet, so it would be great if you could contribute photos of those ports as well when the time comes. Thanks so much for adding to our seen Cunard ports list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue-B Posted April 22, 2023 #4700 Share Posted April 22, 2023 2 minutes ago, bluemarble said: It's always good to see new names joining our game. Welcome to @alc13 and @Sue-B! Although we haven't officially identified your current "by request" photo yet @alc13, it's clear several of us have figured it out. I'd also like to make a request for a photo of the port you visited yesterday since that's a new Cunard port we haven't seen yet. There are going to be several other ports on your current itinerary we haven't seen yet, so it would be great if you could contribute photos of those ports as well when the time comes. Thanks so much for adding to our seen Cunard ports list! Thank you for the lovely welcome! 😊 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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