Déjà Vu?

Introduction

With the continuing good weather and a Monday off I headed out early this morning to capture the arrival of the Saga Sapphire and yes, you guessed it, the AIDAluna (hence the Déjà vu, please see my previous photographic post).

As well as the early start  their were a couple of other factors against me today. Firstly the Prince of Wales pier was closed for the majority of the arrival of the Saga Sapphire, it wasn’t opened until she had rounded the end of the pier  but I captured her as she crossed the bay and once the pier was open, as she was gently eased to her berth. The second factor was the strong sunlight, not normally a problem but I had forgotten my lens hood (that goes to prove that I am an amateur!) 

With all factors taken into account please find below some photographs of the Saga Sapphire and the AIDAluna (again).

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A sun drenched Port of Dover

The Pride of Canterbury departs as the Saga Sapphire closes up on the port

The Saga Sapphire enters the Eastern entrance to the Port of Dover

Saga Sapphire ‘making fast’ her tugs in the bay

The Saga Sapphire seen approaching the end of the Prince of Wales pier

The AIDAluna passing through the Eastern entrance with the Dunkerque Seaways astern

The Saga Sapphire slowly approaches her berth assisted by the DHB Doughty and DHB Dauntless

The DHB Doughty guiding the Saga Sapphire to her berth…… 

………..as the DHB Dauntless guides her stern 

The AIDAluna swings in the bay as the Saga Sapphire makes her way to her berth

The Saga Sapphire slowly approaches her berth assisted by the DHB Doughty and DHB Dauntless

The AIDAluna swinging in the bay

The AIDAluna swings in the bay as the Dunkerque Seaways makes her way astern to her berth

AIDAluna

AIDAluna

The sun shining off the bow of the AIDAluna

The mooring gang await the AIDAluna

AIDAluna

DHB Dauntless (stern), DHB Doughty (bow) and the Director of the Port of Dover Marine Operations department aiding the Saga Sapphire to her berth

AIDAluna at Terminal Two. If you look hard enough you will see the moon above her funnel

Another deja vu from the other day, the Smit Rother departs for the Lydd firing range as the DHB Dauntless heads back to the tug haven

The harbour patrol/pilot launch ‘Director’ making sure nobody gets in the way during the berthing operations

The Saga Sapphire ‘all fast’ at Terminal One

AIDAluna bathed in sunshine

A wide angel shot of the AIDAluna at Terminal Two with the Saga Sapphire at Terminal One

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All photographs were taken with a Canon EOS 550D.

All Photographs on this page are the © Ray Goodfellow (Dover Ferry Photos) 2014, All rights reserved.

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