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MSC Malaga - Leaving Port (1/1)

I woke up at 3am to watch us leave Liverpool port.

Night time containers. OMG so many containers Hey, this is just like another picture I took, except it's dark out. Ready to go, all full up. This is the first time I was on the bridge. And, we're off! After a few minutes, we'd turned and started pulling out. Looking slightly starboard. Oh no! We have to fit through *there*?! Tuggy the Tugboat will help us! Err..time to fix the dock. My, a tight fit! (We were actually touching on the port side.) Looking back into the loading area. Stern-side tugboat lets go Radio equipment in the morning light Locks closing behind us That's the ferry I was *supposed* to come on, except 12 hours later. Taunting me. Windmills. Front tugboat lets go. Another ferry, also taunting me. Giant Containosaurs Rexes, and windmills. Guess you can't complain that windmills are ugly when they're beside those beasts. G'bye, tug! G'bye, land! Hellow, carbon output! (You can't see much -- it actually burned pretty cleanly..) Land Land No land. Just a bit of a wake. Okay, really g'bye land! Jet contrails. I'm not in one of those. You can see the pilot jumping down onto the pilot boat, if you look carefully. Pilot boat goes away.. ..and we're on our own. ..okay, okay, *really* g'bye land. ..it's getting foggy, already.. can't see far back, either. And thus we are in our little coccooned worled, with ~ 100m visibility, 7 days to go, and soon no other ships within a 100 miles radius.
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