A photo of the day thread

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The biggest cruiseliner that I have ever seen, Norwegian Joy, leaving Gibraltar for the Med.
To give you an idea of scale, the "tubs" 1/2 mile in front of it are 40000 tonnes and 50000 tonnes.
It deposited 3800 passengers - mostly Chinese - onto the Rock, thus increasing the population by over 10% at a stroke.
 
sciac2001 said:
View attachment 160782 View attachment 160783 The biggest cruiseliner that I have ever seen, Norwegian Joy, leaving Gibraltar for the Med.
To give you an idea of scale, the "tubs" 1/2 mile in front of it are 40000 tonnes and 50000 tonnes.
It deposited 3800 passengers - mostly Chinese - onto the Rock, thus increasing the population by over 10% at a stroke.
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Obscene ant they floating hotels. What they are like in a heavy sea I dread to think..:)
 
buttons said:
Obscene ant they floating hotels. What they are like in a heavy sea I dread to think..:)
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Been on a fair few cruises including the Oasis Of The Sea around the Caribbean 5400 passengers and sometimes you hardly see anyone when you walk around.
Had to pull out of Bermuda once as a large storm was heading our way, did not feel a thing as the boats have stabilisers that go out in rough seas to steady them.

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Coolbeanz said:
Stunning view of snow capped peaks of the Pyrenees as we drove in to Spain today

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I wonder if the British Government are aware of the standard of European tarmac?

I travel there a lot and cycle in France frequently. You know you're in France when you can cycle without your teeth being rattled out and constantly doing a slalom around potholes and sunken grids.
 
A veritable cornucopia of panoramic images from our Spring 2017 Tour de France, all taken on my mobile telephony apparatus. The only thing I like about the infernal device is how it does panoramas - the rest of the time I loathe it with every fibre of my being.

Anyway, we start with the war memorial in the centre of Verdun:

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The ornately gilded main square of Nancy, featuring the statue of Stan The Man, who was behind it all:

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Carcassonne - the view from our restaurant table in the old town. Incredibly vulgar of me to tinker with a phone during a meal I know, but I couldn't resist.

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At Capbreton, the surreal WW2 era German artillery bunkers, left all washed up by over 70 years of coastal erosion. Atlantic Ocean 1, Nazism 0.

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The Valley of Man at Les Eyzies de Tayac Sirieul in Dordogne. Taken from the terrace above the French National Museum of Prehistory, which is built on the site of a Palaeolithic rock shelter. There's more prehistory in this small area than you can shake a spear at - we love it. The aire's a firm favourite too.

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And last but not least, the Ile de Re, starting with the Vauban-designed walls of the Fort de la Pree near Rivedoux-Plage:

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Then moving rapidly onto the view of the island from the Re bridge (if you can be bothered to walk or cycle up it). Freewheeling back down is great fun, as it's the closest thing to a proper hill that you'll find on the entire island.

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And finally, if you walk onto the beach directly below the bridge you can see this, with the port of La Rochelle on the horizon:

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Then we came home.

It was a great trip, thank you for watching. :)
 
lorger said:
our walk up Conic hill Loch Lomond yesterday. The photos dont do the view justice

Toby always takes a selfie even if we don't want to :)
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Poor little Toby-dog, there he was, trying to have a kip, and you disturb him just to take his piccy...

But honestly, that look on his face is priceless!!!

(and you both look happy :D actually all 3 look pretty pleased with yourselves :) nice view too (y) )

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Amazing little butterfly. Such a startling, eye-catching topside to the wings; such perfect camouflage beneath.
(Called, unsurprisingly, an Orange-Tip. This one is male; females don't have the orange corner.)

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CWH said:
Amazing little butterfly. Such a startling, eye-catching topside to the wings; such perfect camouflage beneath.
(Called, unsurprisingly, an Orange-Tip. This one is male; females don't have the orange corner.)

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And you can also get, though they are very rare, LGBT ones with one orange wing and one black one. Bilateral gynandromorphs for the technically minded. :)
 
John Laidler said:
And you can also get, though they are very rare, LGBT ones with one orange wing and one black one. Bilateral gynandromorphs for the technically minded. :)
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Never knew that! Nature never fails to surprise.
 
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Just realised I should have written LGBT+ rather than LGBT. The + sign apparently is to cover all the other groups, which if included, would make the term too long. Hope I haven't offended anyone from the + group. :)
 

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