Arcadia & Ocean Endeavour

Not the best of days for liner visits with the Arcadia and Ocean Endeavour anchoring at St Peter Port. Through the mist, fog, rain and drizzle the liners were occasionally visible but not a lot. The Arcadia guests had the longest tender ride into town but sea conditions were not too bad.

Ocean Endeavour with its ice strengthened hull is more suited to Arctic and Antarctic seas and the end of the year will see her in the Falklands and South Georgia. Built in 1982 she spent her early years in the Baltic before heading to the Mediterranean. She was sold to her current owners in early 2014. Ocean Endeavour left for Dover in the late afternoon with Arcadia also disappearing into the fog by early evening, bound for Southampton.

Those guests who took the cliff path just outside St Peter Port heading for Fort George, will have found the path lined with bluebells and 'stinking onions', still in bloom this year due to recent cold weather.  They brighten up even the dullest day.