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The Three Queens

Okay it’s been a long time since I properly blogged, sorry guys! Main reason I haven’t blogged was due to exams, which some I passed, some I didn’t. Though I knew I had messed up on, despite doing multiple practice papers in the lead up :(. Due to the amount of things that has happen I’m going to post a few smaller posts then one long one. For this post I don’t have many words, more just pictures!

So yes I do admit have become a little bit of a spotter in the past few months (not with a notebook and anorak – don’t worry), so you could understand how excited I was when it came to the day that ‘the three queens’, Cunard’s cruise liners; Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria & Queen Elizabeth, all sailed past Warsash together.

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This was the time table we were given for when the Queens would pass various places. Looking at this I decided they would pass us around half five, so myself and Skye left the cabin at 1645 in order to walk down the beach a bit to a good viewing spot. However, it wasn’t till gone half six that the Queens actually passed us!

While waiting The Anthem of the Seas and the Balmoral did pass us, which was nice but we were waiting for the queens! As you can tell by the photos it wasn’t the nicest of day, and even with wind and waterproof coats, both myself and Bamb were freezing, and we were both glad to have a flask of tea.

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Finally after what seemed like hours, Queen Mary 2 came through the fog! Yayyyy! I genuinely never seen so many people on the shore of the Solent, nor so many cameras in my  life!

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If it were a nicer day I would’ve loved to watch the vessels continue on their voyage as they navigated around ‘The Island’, however, it was gone seven when we started heading back to Campus and we were too cold to stay out any longer.

Some of these photos were taken by Skye Callaghan.