Showing posts with label Waverley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waverley. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Waverley

The paddle steamer Waverley is making her annual visit to the Solent this week. I spotted her in Southampton Water this morning, making her way towards the Isle of Wight, under threatening skies.

As my mobile is crap as a stills camera, I used the video feature, which is not great (also crap, really) but is useful in the absence of anything else. Because of the weather, it has come out pretty dark. I also used portrait mode.




The UK is currently experiencing vast amounts of rainfall, with flooding and damage all over the country, thanks to a very deep low which has tropical air mixed in with it, aided and abetted by our nemesis the jet stream. As I headed towards Southampton this morning the sky was the blackest I have ever seen it. Last time I saw a sky this colour, it was on a science fiction film at the beginning of an alien invasion. No aliens today, (un)fortunately, but there were some torrential cloudbursts and I got soaked to the skin, despite wearing a waterproof jacket.