Two smaller liners today with Minerva and Sea Adventurer calling at St Peter Port for the day. The Minerva is on a two week cruise out of Portsmouth visiting ports in Brittany and Normandy before heading for Amsterdam and London. She will spend two nights at Greenwich giving guests the opportunity to visit the Chelsea Flower Show. The range of the tides in Havelet Bay are clearly shown in this image with the darker patches on the harbour wall.
With sea fog forecast for tonight, there was no sign of it at the liner pontoon with plenty of Zodiacs waiting to take Sea Adventurers guests back to their liner. The Minerva sailed early evening for Caen, The Sea Adventurer will leave later tonight to continue her cruise of the Channel Islands, with visits to Jersey and Sark.
Both these liners have history; the Minerva should have been a Soviet Research Vessel and the Sea Adventurer, built in Yugoslavia, is one of those rare Liners to have sailed the North West passage. Most of the guests on board the Sea Adventurer were from the USA having flown to Portugal on May 11th. They will fly back on May 26th from Holland having visited ports of Western Europe in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium and finally the Netherlands
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