Waiting for the Queen to leave at Lady Macquarie’s Chair
Two gigantic luxury ocean liners sailed into Sydney Harbour this week. Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen Mary 2 were welcomed by thousands of spectators including a fleet of cruise boats, kayaks and choppers. The 294-metre Queen Elizabeth is on 103-night circumnavigation from England, with stops in the US, New Zealand, Australia, the Middle East and Europe. It docked at the International terminal and had left the next day for Melbourne.
It isn’t the biggest ship in the world now but it still looks massive.
Queen Mary 2 was launched in 2004 and is the flagship of the Cunard fleet
On the way to the Royal Botanic Gardens, I told Charles, I am 100% sure there would be Pinoys onboard that ship.
And here’s what we saw 
Probably one of the crew waving the Philippine Flag.
We were able to catch Queen Mary 2 at Garden Island before it left for New Zealand later in the afternoon. We joined hundreds of excited spectators at Lady Macquarie’s Chair and had a great time taking some snapshots of this impressive ship. Queen Mary 2 is a 345-metre, 151,400-tonne luxury liner and is on a 96-night world voyage. Prices for a round-trip luxury cruise starts at $US25,529. ☺
It sailed near the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House before finally leaving the harbour.
One of baker (pastry) of Queen Elizabeth 2 is a friend from Davao..
Nice
I think almost all luxury ocean liners have Pinoys onboard. Our seamen are sought-after around the world.
natuwa ako don sa flag–nakuhanana mo!!! sa lahat naman talaga ng barko, may Pinoy.!!proud!!!ang grand—-kelan kaya may ganyang kalaking cruise ship na dadaan sa Pinas? tapos yung tipong nung paalis na eh andun lahat mga tao sa likod tumitingin and waving—-such a magnificent sight.
Actually it was Charles who first saw it, good thing I was using my 18-200mm lens so I was able to zoom a bit.
Claire. all my brothers are seamen but not like on this huge ship. They are only on cargo ship. Every seamen dreamed to go on board on cruise ship like this one. I like the last photo. It looks like angel locsin. Is that angel locsin ha claire? If I may ask.
Wag po baka madami mag-react, siguro pag taong lobo na lang sya kamukha ko hahaha, ( I also know a lot of seamen on cargo vessels, my brother is one and I have many friends working on luxury ocean liners. I once trained for this one at Magsaysay but I guess it wasn’t meant to be)
I love that second to the last photo… It shows the opera house at the background. I haven’t heard of these ocean liners before so this goes down to my memory bank now. Thank you for sharing Claire…:)
P.S. You look wonderful in those pictures….:) (wink)
Thanks Jorie, I actually didn’t want to go before that’s why I missed Queen Elizabeth, good thing I was able to fight my laziness and drag myself to the harbour for Queen Mary 2
It was worth it
Oh wow! I’m touched by that person waving our flag. Saludo ako sa kanya. Parang isang barangay sa laki ang queen mary 2.
Natuwa talaga kami nung nakita namin ito. Sana makita nya ang blog na to someday
Wow, that is massive! Katawa naman yung flag na nakalabas. Haha. BTW, I love your new photo at the bottom of the page. Ganda.
Hehehe, thanks, ang walang kamatayang jump shot
this isn’t the biggest ship yet? i wonder how ginormous the biggest is. omg, the price could buy me thousands of cases of beer! hehehe
LOL yeah i’d rather backpack around the world with that money. it could go a long way
oh my, inggit ako sa 18-200mm! hehe. galing. the ship really looks huge! been contemplating on working in a cruise ship…
Talaga, go while still young and single, most of my friends who work on a cruise ship love it so much. But those who have families already are just doing it for work
This must be one of the biggest cruise ships that I have ever seen! I have a friend that has been working on a cruise ship for the last 8 years. She loves every minute
Same here Nelieta, itwas my first time see up close a luxury ship as big as Queen Mary 2
It’s just so impressive.