Royal Princess

A lovely sunrise this morning off the east coast of Guernsey as the Golden Spur marks the position for the Royal Princess to drop anchor. Any independent guests on board have a good choice of events today with the Scarecrow Trail in Torteval and, closer to the ship, Seafront Sunday and various stalls by the Old Harbour in St Peter Port.

Any guests on their balconies on the other side of the liner would see St Peter Port lit by the early morning sun. The steep rise leading up to Hauteville House, where Victor Hugo lived when in exile, is clear in this image. So too is the Fort Field, part of Fort George which overlooks St Peter Port.

The Royal Princess is on her regular cruise around the British Isles, which will take her cruising the north coast of Scotland, before heading to Le Havre and then to Southampton. The end of August will see her last visit of the year before she sails for Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Next summer she will not be a regular visitor to Guernsey as she will be based in the Mediterranean.  The liner is not so good for the inhabitants of Herm though as due to her size she sometimes interrupts telecommunications links with the island!