In The Thick Of It - a photo on Flickriver

In The Thick Of It

We were getting tossed about like a cork in the ocean!

The previous shot:
www.flickr.com/photos/nyalr/53429780613/in/dateposted-pub...
gave us an idea of what was to come but it really didn't show us the whole picture!

The ferry (and passengers) were getting tossed to and from, like a fishing bobber on a windy day. The rain started coming down in sheets and the wind howled as everyone tried to get either below or under the cover. Unfortunately some folks didn't quite make it and got thoroughly soaked!

Niccy and I must be odd ducks because we thoroughly enjoyed riding the storm out. It really wasn't any worse than the hurricane we ran into off the coast of Martinique although that was on a much larger vessel that was definitely prepared for the storm.

There was only one injury that we know of, some lady below decks took a tumble when she went to stand up and had to be hauled off in the ambulance, everyone else made it back in one piece!

For a technical note I used the B/W setting on the camera, it seemed to be more in line with a nasty storm!

PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!

Some rights reserved

Taken on: November 11, 2023

Tags:

caribbean

cruise

P&O

Brittania

ship

vessel

island

bequia

vincent

grenadines

wet

rainy

ferry

small

panasonic

DMC-TS1

pocket

camera

waterproof

sand

proof

tough

drop

weatherproof

storm

clouds

angry

waves

wind

dark

cloudy

injury

ambulance

soaking « less

Sets appears in: • Caribbean Cruise November 2023

Camera: Panasonic DMC-TS1, f/4.7, 1/40 sec, 9.1mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-TS1
Aperture:	f/4.7
Exposure Time:	0.025 sec (1/40)
Focal Length:	9.1mm
ISO:	100
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	GIMP 2.10.18
Show full info

Stats: 651 views / 12 comments

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder