Aurora & Ocean Nova

The military kept the Aurora company at the anchorage today. She should have come tomorrow for the 70th Liberation celebrations but as the weather did not look too good for tender operations she came a day early. The Ocean Nova was anchored to the west of her and HMS Northumberland to the east.

The guests on board the Aurora were treated to a small display with a Sea King helicopter exercising with the local lifeboat. She still looks rather strange with that blue funnel of her new colours instead of the buff one. She left just after tea time heading for Zeebrugge and Bruges before heading back to Southampton early on Sunday morning.

The Ocean Nova, looked small by comparison headed out through the Little Russel for Alderney, a rare sight with more liners using the passage between Herm and Sark, the Big Russel. With Vivian beacon in the foreground, and Brehon Tower and Herm in the background, the guests on board saw a lot of the Channel Islands today.