HMS Queen Elizabeth ....

26th June 2017 (Monday).... 09.00     HMS Queen Elizabeth (our new Aircraft Carrier) is due to sail out of the Firth today.    Low tide is at 11.00 which is
The overflow pipe that I use as a walk way .
when ‘she’ will ‘sail’ under the Forth Bridges.    I’d go along to Pettycur get some pictures, but I’d rather get some pictures of ‘her’ passing Elie and 'The Royal Burgh'.    Must go ‘ slight flap on’.... got a flask to fill.    It’s a ‘nae bad’ morning but we could get some showers by the look of the sky.
13.40    According to the latest AIS info (a couple of minutes ago) HMS Queen Elizabeth is still in Rosyth Dockyard.... with tugs fore, aft,  and along her port side.   She is ‘doing’ 0.1 knots so they must be manoeuvring ‘her’ into position then out of the dock.   When will ‘she’ pass Elie and Earlsferry? ....  evening time by the look of things.    I’m going out for a walk, having been to Leven with Jimmy, who was running out of ready meals.
20.00     HMS Queen Elizabeth is now moored up on the west side of the ‘bridges’ waiting for the tide to go out:  ‘she’ was manoeuvred out of the dock by tug boats at about 15.30.     Unfortunately this means that I, most likely, won’t get  photographs  of HMS Queen Elizabeth passing our villages.... because it will either be dark, or, if she doesn’t reach us until 03.00, when it will be getting light again, the forecast is for it to be raining by then.    Oh .... I’ll get up at 03.00 to see where ‘she ‘is on AIS (the marine traffic website) and, if it’s at all possible, and she just happens to moored in Elie Bay, I will have a go at getting some photos ... if the rain hasn’t reached us by then.   I’m
AIS webpage.
actually hoping that ‘she’ will want to hang around the Firth until the engines ‘warm up’.... the rain moves away.... and I get my photos!     I’m a bundle o’ excitement tonight.

I went up to the Pony Field for a walk in the afternoon;  but it was dull and cool because the wind has veered round to the East, so I only lingered long enough to get a few photos, before heading for Ivy and ‘food’.    The ‘Pony Field’ is a good vantage point to see HMS Queen Elizabeth .... all I need is for ‘her to make some kind of entrance onto the ‘stage’.    You would think that ‘she’ ought  to pay some kind of homage to the ‘Royal Burgh’ after all!


Photographs : Top – this is the overflow pipe that I walk along  to get to the sandbanks
Earlsferry from the Pony Field....and  the green green grass of home.
(under water in this photo) at the far end, Middle – HMS Queen Elizabeth being manoeuvred in the Rosyth Dock this afternoon.    (Photo of the AIS webpage);   AIS is a very interesting website, and Bottom – the ‘Royal Burgh’ from the Pony Field.

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