Your bike in front of some water - pictures

[FrothNinja]

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Waiting at Gravesend for the Tibury ferry. MBIFO the Thames

That big building top left isn't a big building. It's a cruise ship. A humungous cruise ship. Full of people enjying the cultural splendour of Tilbury

https://shipsmonthly.com/news/new-virgin-cruise-ship-valiant-lady-arrives-on-the-thames/

That 'ship' looks disturbingly top heavy

 

[Dogtrousers]

That 'ship' looks disturbingly top heavy

It's weird up close. It's like a skyscraper.

 

[KnittyNorah]

It's weird up close. It's like a skyscraper.

They are indeed weird things.
I once saw a similar vessel in a very un-skyscrapered part of the world - New Caledonia/Nouvelle Caledonie - as I rounded a corner near a harbour which corner I'd walked round several times in the previous few days, the view suddenly 'opened' onto a large harbour and I'd seen only what I consider to be 'normal' sized vessels in it. A French navy minesweeper or patrol vessel of some kind was the largest I'd seen in the harbour previously; usually it was medium-sized commercial fishing boats, ferries and water taxis.
I was - literally - halted in my tracks with shock, surprise and puzzlement when I was suddenly faced with this wall of windows and balconies which hadn't been there the previous day and which looked for all the world like some sort of high-rise residential block as seen on 'upgraded' harbour fronts in cities throughout the world. There was extra shock provided by the fact that I was so darned close to the thing as the path I took down to the harbour was a steep one with hairpins and zigzags on a narrow cobbled path between terraced rows of cottages; I hadn't really looked up after I'd got off the bus to start my walk down to the harbour as I was too intent on keeping my footing on the cobbles and was totally discombobulated and disorientated on rounding the corner to be faced by what it took me some moments to realise was a cruise ship - Ugly Colossus of the Seas or some such name, I am sure! - moored right in the centre of this small, and small-scale, town. Fortunately I was staying on the other side of the town near a shallow bay with no possibility of waking up to such a thing!

 

[PeteXXX]

My CX in front of Pitsford Res.

 

[tyred]

 

[IaninSheffield]

Start of the Chesterfield Canal at West Stockwith on the Trent:

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Gorgeous day today

 

[briantrumpet]

Something tells me that you're not terribly interested in the fact that the English Channel is behind my bike.

 

[tribanjules]

Top of the Stratford canal this eve

 

[briantrumpet]

In front of, and almost in, this morning...

 

[FrothNinja]

Killington Lake

 

[Grant Fondo]

One from yesterdays ride ... Afon Tryweryn, Snowdonia.

 

[briantrumpet]

A posh bike day for the commute. Well, it's the poshest one I've got, even if it's ten years old now.

 

[Willd]

River Leam

 

[Oldhippy]

The English Channel.