Today was the turn of Cunard's Queen Elizabeth arriving from Dublin after a day at sea yesterday. Her maiden voyage was in autumn 2010 to the Iberian Peninsula. For company on the anchorage today she had the Sarnia Cherie, one of Guernsey's own oil tankers. She was purchased to safeguard the delivery of oil to St Sampsons Harbour which dries out at low tide. Because of this the double hulled ship, built in 200,7 has to sit on the bottom of the harbour.
If you were in Castle Cornet you had the opportunity to see her through the pay per view telescopes, now costing 50 pence or 1 Euro, I though they were still 10 pence. Is this where the one from the airport went? This must be one of the few dual coinage pay machines on the island.
This game of lawn bowls goes on despite the view of the Queen Elizabeth in the background. Tonight the liner will leave Guernsey bound for Southampton where she will end her 10 day cruise around the British Isles.
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