O ...... is for Omnificent

Today was a sea day as we turn northwards away from the Canaries to head for our next port of call, Lisbon in Portugal.

The view from the deck in the afternoon was totally transfixing. The sky was enormous, with mottled clouds seemingly drawing the eye to the horizon which stretched out as a clear blue line all around the ship. The sea was a millpond calm with just subtle undulations catching the eye with their changing colours and it was almost unbelievable that things could be so still, calm and stunningly beautiful in the middle of the Atlantic. I must have spent hours simply watching the magnificence, occasionally diverted when two or three porpoises disturbed the calmness with their wonderful, poised dipping and diving. A triumph of nature as special as it was different to the marvels I am often lucky enough to witness in the hills at home.

Tomorrow we dock at Lisbon at 7 am.