Here Come The Girlz (plus Grand Mistral and Höegh Seoul)

Two Cunard Queens, Elizabeth and Victoria, and the Portuguese cruise ship Grand Mistral were in Southampton yesterday and, as she is not scheduled to return this year, I decided to go to East Cowes to see Grand Mistral, which was due to sail at 1700. Her departure time was originally 1800 but had been brought forward, which was ideal for me as I had to get home because some people from our local astronomy society were coming over. The Queens' sailing time was 1630.
P&O Cruises' Aurora was also in but not sailing until 2000.

As it happened the ships all sailed late...the Queens departed after 5pm and Grand Mistral eventually got her arse in gear at 1745 which was annoying, as it made time tight in order to get home in time for my visitors.

The light was again variable but it was a nice day, better than the rain and gales of the previous day and night which wiped out the electricity supply to three villages (including ours), a hamlet and the town of Sandown and, fortunately, the force 9 winds had died down.

Here Come The Girlz

Queen Victoria was first

Followed by Queen Elizabeth

Car carrier Höegh Seoul broke up the procession of cruise ships...

...before Grand Mistral finally appeared in deteriorating light

I was messing about with the colour cast adjustment in Photoshop Elements and got this exaggerated but pleasing effect.