A different point of view.

How many times have you sat on Shanklin or Sandown beach and looked out at the big ferries passing by? Well, here's the view of someone standing on deck 11 looking back at you.
Actually I guess you wouldn't be sat on the beach in the gloom would you? But it really didn't seem quite so murky from on board the P&O 'Pride of Bilbao'. Perhaps that was because I was still jubilant at having seen huge Fin Whales on a short jaunt across the Bay of Biscay and back. Amazingly you can see over a third of all the world's whales and dolphins from this ferry; the 4km deep oceanic trench and plankton-rich coastal shelf around it have only recently been recognized as a world class location for watching cetaceans. Take a 3-day mini-cruise, stand on deck from dawn all day and you could see extraordinary things. It's not just the whales and dolphins though, you might also see Basking Sharks, Sunfish, Tuna and even a turtle. Have a look at http://www.biscay-dolphin.org.uk/sightings.html
And as we came round into the Solent it looked like this:


Gateway to the Promised Land?