QV Russian Rendezvous II - St Petersburg 30 Jun 08

29th December 2008

In his daily broadcast to passengers before arriving in St Petersburg, Captain Rynd had said something along the lines of “you don’t need to bother about getting up early as we will be berthing in the commercial port and all you’ll be able to see will be dockside cranes and cargo ships and so on”. Sounded pretty damned good to me so a 0400hrs start was in order. As it turned out I slept in a bit and didn’t make it on deck until about 0500hrs, by which time we were well into the dredged channel and approaching St Petersburg. However, there was heavy clould cover and, even as far north as this, the light was still extremely poor. I had hoped, in passing to get a few shots of the naval base at Kronstadt but I missed it because of my “late” start. The sun did, eventually, put in an appearance and we berthed in the commercial port just early enough for me to get a few more ship photographs before having to head off for the first of two marathon shore excursions (0700 to 1700hrs each day!). The photographs in this collection are presented more or less in the order in which they were taken and, because of the numbers involved, some will have little information associated with them.

Sunrise	"Convoy"	Baltic Eager	Baltic Eager
Slavutich	Slavutich	Slavutich	Glacier Point
Glacier Point	Glacier Point	Vliand	Vliandv