It is Bank Holiday Monday in the United Kingdom and as is traditional the weather fizzled out today to heavy rain and mist. But in the morning when the Sea Explorer 1 and the Queen Victoria arrived it was not too bad. From the Blue Mountains, Sea Explorer having arrived from Portsmouth, looks lonely on the anchorage. She left at lunchtime bound for Sark.
The Blue Mountains does not attract many liner guests, but gives views of the other Channel Islands and nearby French coast. A short walk downhill to the harbour shows the illustrious company that the Sea Explorer was keeping, with the Queen Victoria anchored nearby. Yesterday afternoon the Cunard liner sailed with the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary 2 from Southampton as part of the 175th Anniversary of the Cunard Line.
The Condor Liberation passengers had a close up view of the Queen Victoria as she sailed past on her morning trip to Poole. Today she has two sailings to Poole and will be departing north again late evening from Guernsey.
The weather had taken a turn for the worse as these guests from The Queen Victoria board the last tenders having just returned from a visit to Sark. She left just after tea time and the next port of call is Le Havre. On the 7th May at 2.10pm in Cobh the Queen Victoria's whistle will sound to mark the exact time when the Lusitania was torpedoed off the Old Head of Kinsale 100 year ago. Early on that Thursday morning the liner will pass over the spot of the sinking.
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