ROBERT ETCHELL: CRUISE SHIPS IN VICTORIA

During the month of july i made two trips to VICTORIA to photograph the cruise ships docking at ogden point. the first trip was on july 6 with my dad and we went to this point in esquimalt named MACAULAY POINT PARK wich is on macaulay point and the land is leased from dnd to the city of esquimalt . the park has a great vieu of ogden point and juan de fuca strait. the cruise ships arive bettween 5pm to 7pm. but the on this day the first one was at ogden point by 5.15pm wich was the OOSTERDAM then right behind her was the NORWEGIAN PEARL and the last one was the GOLDEN PRINCESS wich arived at 6.05pm.
all 3 of these ships came close to the park so we had a great vieu of them and see them dock at ogden point

OGDEN POINT DOCKS

then on july 21 i made my second trip to VICTORIA i was with world ship society members RICK GARCIA and DON BROWN to photograph the GRAND PRINCESS wich was ariving at ogden point at 11am so myself rick don went onto the ogden point breakwater to wait for its arival. so wich the GRAND PRINCESS came very close to us and gave us good photos of her ariving from alaska. but there were other cruise ships arived earlier in the day they were the REGATTA and the SLIVER SHADOW . but we were more interested in the GRAND PRINCESS because she starts her alaska cruises from san fransisco. ogden point breakwater is a great place to photograph ships in and out of ogden point and VICTORIA HARBOUR. but its only good from about 8am to 1pm thats the best times to photograph from there and the breakwater has railings alllong the way and benches to sit and see the vieu from the end wich i thought was great. so overal VICTORIA has good places to see the cruise ships in there port doring the season