Seen on my afternoon walk

[Mark Jarvis 2Participant @markjarvis2]

Hi Dave, Nice to see you stretching your legs again, missed your updates this year, see you at Ellsmear again this year??

Regards

Mark

[David WooleyParticipant @davidwooley82563]

It was a busy day when the Atlantic Star arrived . I just missed a good close up of the Vidar a jack up vessel for wind farm construction . But a reasonable shot bathed in winter sun of the inbound bulker Ultra Tolhuaca just about to enter the Mersey . Working on the new Liverpool 2 berth was the cutter suction dredger Artemis .What a model that would make .

Dave Wooley

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hi Dave

You still walking about?

I've often thought about the installation of those ubiquitous Windmills

See you at Ellesmere

Bob

[David WooleyParticipant @davidwooley82563]

Hi Bob good to hear from you and I shall be looking out for you at the Ellesmere Port show. lets hope the weather is on our side .

Dave Wooley

[David WooleyParticipant @davidwooley82563]

Todays walk worked well with the tide and as usual about 1 hour before high tide the traffic really starts to move .

Entering the approaches to the Mersey and In bound from la Havre was the 40972 ton container ship OOCL Belgium . My first shot was more accidental but could be seen as a little and large. The second shot was taken at extreme distance and shows how close the pilot boat was to the bow. Another interesting vessel was the out bound LPG tanker the Dorothea Schulte out bound from Stanlow whilst inbound was an unusual general cargo vessel Nofit .

Dave Wooley

[Peter FitnessParticipant @peterfitness34857]

Nice shots as usual, Dave. All that blue sky almost makes one think you are in Australia.

Peter.

[David WooleyParticipant @davidwooley82563]

Hi Peter good to hear from you . The only problem is getting the tides to coincide with the blue clear sky's . There is one real difference between my shots taken today and those that would be taken in Australia , the temperature .

Cheers

Dave Wooley

[David WooleyParticipant @davidwooley82563]

My Walk today worked out well with the tide, the sun and the ship I wanted to see. For the last time the RFA Support Tanker Orangeleaf was departing the Mersey on it's final voyage being towed to Turkey for scrap . A sad end but this is a single hulled tanker and no longer viable as a support tanker for the RN.

Dave Wooley

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