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Photos of Condor Liberation’s maiden passenger voyage from Poole to Guernsey and Jersey on Friday March 27 2015. The new £50m fast ferry is over twice the size of those it replaces and is, obviously, an improvement in terms of a more modern feel on board, including the car decks. But the Liberation’s opening weekend of service turned out to be rather more dramatic than anticipated.
Friday’s first sailing departed Poole some 30 minutes late and arrived in St Helier, Jersey 80 minutes late. There was some sort of issue as Liberation was preparing to depart from St Peter Port in Guernsey which appeared to add to the already delayed journey. A loud crash was heard at the stern of the ship docked to the ramp as quayside staff seemed to wrangle with a jib of some kind - and another worker appeared to make calls about a taught rope on a bollard. Perhaps those more expert than me can look at those pics and shed some light on what was going on? But all was eventually sorted out and we left for Jersey.
However the next day (Saturday) on Liberation’s second passenger sailing, she unfortunately had an argument with the jetty at St Peter Port. Strong winds resulted in a collision. Although described as “minor damage” to the ferry, Liberation was taken out of service and Jersey-bound passengers on that second sailing had to later transfer to conventional ferry Commodore Clipper to take them on to St Helier.
As things turned out, Liberation had to be returned to Poole for repairs and was taken out of service for a week. So at the time of posting this - April 2 - the relatively small number of passengers left on Liberation after the Guernsey disembarkations on Friday maiden passenger voyage are still the first and only paying customers to have made the trip on Liberation all the way to Jersey. The ship is due back in service on April 4 and I wish Condor and all their staff well. (Update: Liberation finally returned to service on Sunday April 5 after wet weather delayed the final pieces of welding work)
The purpose of posting most of these photos is to both illustrate what the Condor Liberation looks like from a paying customer’s point of view and also to give those yet to travel on her an idea of what to expect. Check out individual captions for info on facilities, the “ride” experience in various sections and more.
55019 Royal Highland Fusiler passes Bewdley south signal box light engine on the Severn Valley railway.
Lucas Bane plays Horus in the FSU thesis film Squatter. Shot in a moving train near Sarasota, FL. Shot this session with fellow photographer Andy Ellis.
Director: Thomas Christianson
Producer: Sylwia Dudzinska
1st AD: Andrew Twibell
DP: Eric Clark
The SU-99 pass Lake Grinnell in Sparta, NJ on the old Lehigh & Hudson River
July 20, 2016
Lake Grinnell - Sparta, NJ
NYSW SU-99
NYSW SD60 : 3806
NYSW SD60 : 3802
NYSW SD60 : 3804
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 streaks past the window of Austrian Airlines Airbus A320-200 OE-LBV en route from Vienna to London Heathrow. In the few minutes before I decided to get my camera down from the overhead lockers I'd already seen an EasyJet Airbus A319 and an Asiana Boeing 747...
Wine cozys always help when I'm at the inbetweeny stage.. you know the one.. so much yarn not sure what to make with it!!
Anyway, wanted to get the bottom right on them this time and get a nice snug fit... I think I've ticked all the right boxes with this cotton bought at Lidl's!
Passing a barn on a farm near Coshocton, Ohio. The view was made from nearby U.S. Route 36. (Scanned from slide)
Heres another pic from this years Edinburgh Military Tattoo, this passing shower took a couple of days to pass...the only happy faces i saw that night were selling ponchos, i'll still be back next year, its the best show in the country....Rule Brittania!!...p.s., the new stand is a hugh improvement
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R.I.P.
William Charles Kloefkorn (1932-2011) / Leon James Satterfield (1934-2011) ... co-founders of the brotherhood of Loup River runners, more commonly known as the LREF. Leon, the scholar and master satirist, and author of the series, "The Truth, Mainly." Bill, long-time Nebraska State Poet and author of thirty-one books of poetry. Both retired from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Both husbands, fathers, professors, friends, and mentors. Both passing within a moon of each other...too much.
I knew as soon as I processed this image, made from the 2009 LREF voyage, that this would be for Bill. Reminds me of his long white hair blowing in the wind, whether windy or no. (Two-image pan.)
From one of Bill's poems, The Shoe:
I am the shoe I threw away last summer, man,
on the river, man, man floating
in a jonboat in a current of the Loup, man,
man who in a burst of anger
or maybe deep delight
tossed the shoe into the channel, man,
man who thought he'd never see the shoe
again, man, man with one shoe on,
one shoe off, man, O I am the shoe
I threw away last summer, man,
man drifting now wherever
those tides of fortune and misfortune
take me, man, I am that ...
(from Loup River Psalter, 2001)
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Algoma Enterprise passes fleet mate John D Leitch one last time at the top of the Detroit river. Enterprise is one her last upbound run before retierment.
Genua, Italy. Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, Tomba Lazzaro Patrone, 1874. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_Cemetery_of_Staglieno
Sometimes, I get a student who has decided not to speak. It's understandable. If you are suddenly plunged into another culture with a language you don't understand, one of the few rebellions open to you is to elect not to speak. it gives you one small bit of power, where otherwise, you are powerless.
C doesn't speak, apart from one-word answers that take a while before she gets the nerve to whisper them. I'm working on her confidence in speaking, but in the meantime, we have the most marvelous written conversations. We talk about food, TV, movies, and people, all with her careful illustrations and our giggles and nods back and forth. The notes we pass are some of my most enjoyable student interactions.
Probably a lot of people think I should be pushing her to speak more. I'm more concerned with earning her trust, so that when she does decide that she is comfortable with conversing verbally, she knows she can trust me to listen to her.
It was time...
A last walk in her favorite park with her sister Balee and Crunchy and her Mom at her side. But the weakness and the burdens of the ever growing tumors made breathing now even a labor.
It is the duty of every pet owner to know when their beloved companions, who have looked to us their entire life for care and nurturing, to also know when life is not longer fun. And Kaya let her know exactly that... So before the suffering came, Crunchy made the painful choice that it was time to let her go.
So back at the SMASHPAD, surrounded by friends and family, we said our good-byes. The vet, Anne came to the house to administer the final shots and Crunchy was able to feel her final breath.
Farewell, Kaya....you are dearly missed...
lunch, ebisu, tokyo
"would you like hot coffee, or ice coffee after the meal?"
being asked so,
i almost answered "ice coffee please" very naturally.
but soon i reconsidered to order hot coffee.
middle of march is always such a season.
yeah, spring is really coming near at hand,
and probably i'll order ice coffee next time....
Seen passing through Dawlish Warren Station is Cross Country Voyager 221132 heading Westbound, and a First Great Western HST heading towards London Paddington.