Where in the world ?

[david,Mississauga]

5 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

I'm going to say this one is Gaspé, Quebec. That's a tender port for QM2 in Canada and I've found a news report from her call at Gaspé in 2016 where the details in the background match up pretty well with what we see here. It's a close enough match that I'm reasonably confident this is Gaspé.

 

Gaspé it is. It was the first and only time the QM2 has called there. It was supposed to call there in October 2017 as well, but we received information just two weeks before boarding in Québec  that the call was switched to Sept. Iles. The Canadian government imposed speed restrictions  in the St. Lawrence River due to many right whales being killed in collisions with ships.

 

This would have been my second clue, had it been necessary. Cruise ships use the VIA Rail station as a terminal building.

 

[bluemarble]

49 minutes ago, Ray66 said:

Same port - 3 different views.

 

I think this port is Vigo, Spain.

[Ray66]

2 hours ago, bluemarble said:

I think this port is Vigo, Spain.

 

Correct. 🙂

[bluemarble]

On 9/16/2020 at 5:16 PM, Lanky Lad said:

Here is my next offering.  The shelters on the dockside could be a clue to this port.

 

Well, I don't know why it took me so long to figure this one out. It's a port we've been to on another line (and I'm pretty sure our shore excursion group met under one of those shelters). This one is Nassau, Bahamas.

Edited September 18, 2020 by bluemarble

[Lanky Lad]

8 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

Well, I don't know why it took me so long to figure this one out. It's a port we've been to on another line (and I'm pretty sure our shore excursion group met under one of those shelters). This one is Nassau, Bahamas.

Yes you are correct, it's Nassau.

[bluemarble]

Here's my port photo for today. There are clues in the photo to get you headed in the right direction so I won't be adding any hints at this time.

 

[sogne]

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2020 at 2:34 PM, sogne said:

infrequent port at least now 

a clue or 2 large island west Med and one of the most popular attractions

[Host Hattie]

Palma ?

[Host Hattie]

@bluemarble Greece again ?

[exlondoner]

Rhodes?

[bluemarble]

18 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

Rhodes?

 

That's correct, it is Rhodes. And somewhat coincidentally, my photo shows exactly the same two ships in port as this earlier photo of Rhodes that @Host Hattie posted near the beginning of this thread (Queen Elizabeth and Oceania Nautica). My photo was taken not quite a year earlier on November 20, 2012.

 

On 8/23/2020 at 10:33 AM, Host Hattie said:

How about this ? Bonus points for getting both ships

 

 

[bluemarble]

22 minutes ago, bluemarble said:

... My photo was taken not quite a year earlier on November 20, 2012. ...

 

Just in case anyone is puzzled by that date I gave for my Rhodes photo (that was supposed to be a sea day for QE), Rhodes was another one of the replacement ports on our "Holy Land Explorer" cruise when the calls to Israel and Egypt were canceled.

[bluemarble]

On 9/16/2020 at 6:06 AM, BigMac1953 said:

and another easy one. Location?

 

 

Has this one been identified? If not, I think we could use a hint.

[Lanky Lad]

This is not too easy, so a clue is that this was taken on the same voyage as Corb (Queenstown) and some others I have posted recently.

[bluemarble]

1 hour ago, Lanky Lad said:

This is not too easy, so a clue is that this was taken on the same voyage as Corb (Queenstown) and some others I have posted recently.

 

Your hint did help focus my search quite a bit. I think this one is Ponta Delgada, Azores.

[Lanky Lad]

5 minutes ago, bluemarble said:

 

Your hint did help focus my search quite a bit. I think this one is Ponta Delgada, Azores.

Yes, you are right.  This was the only time it rained on this trip.

[BigMac1953]

11 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

Has this one been identified? If not, I think we could use a hint.

This should help:

 

[bluemarble]

2 hours ago, BigMac1953 said:

This should help:

 

 

That helps a lot. I had a hunch your original photo might be in your local area. Now I can see this does indeed look like Greenock, Scotland.

[bluemarble]

Here's another one from my webcam archives. This isn't showing QM2 in port but underway heading out to sea at the estuary for a frequently visited the port. This webcam is no longer in operation but it used to operate at this popular location for viewing passing ships.

 

 

As an extra bonus question, can you identify the date of this webcam image, given the position of the sun relative to where you would normally expect the sun to be when QM2 is at this point heading out to sea?

[BigMac1953]

7 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

That helps a lot. I had a hunch your original photo might be in your local area. Now I can see this does indeed look like Greenock, Scotland.

 

Yes, BM, and taken from the PS Waverley about 8 years ago.

[exlondoner]

7 hours ago, bluemarble said:

Here's another one from my webcam archives. This isn't showing QM2 in port but underway heading out to sea at the estuary for a frequently visited the port. This webcam is no longer in operation but it used to operate at this popular location for viewing passing ships.

 

 

As an extra bonus question, can you identify the date of this webcam image, given the position of the sun relative to where you would normally expect the sun to be when QM2 is at this point heading out to sea?

 

Is it the Elbe hear Cuxhaven?

[bluemarble]

1 hour ago, exlondoner said:

Is it the Elbe hear Cuxhaven?

 

Yes it is. That's the observation area in Cuxhaven, Germany at the mouth of the Elbe called "Alte Liebe" (Old Love). That image was captured from the webcam that used to be at "www.cuxhaven-webcam.de". Now I see there is another webcam at that location that can be found at "www.schiffsansagedienst-cuxhaven.de".

 

Now, would someone like to suggest what time of day that image was captured, based on which direction that webcam at "Alte Liebe" in Cuxhaven would have been facing to get that view of the Elbe? And then from there, suggest what is unusual about that timing for the scene in that image?

[exlondoner]

Very early morning?

[bluemarble]

2 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

Very early morning?

 

That's good. Early to mid morning anyway (09:48 to be precise). Now what would QM2 be doing departing the Elbe and heading out to sea that early in the day?

[Host Hattie]

After a refit ?