A Penultimate Departure

As ORIANA's time with P&O  comes towards it's end so does her calls and departures remaining from various ports and today among overcast skies and choppy seas she made her penultimate departure from Bermuda where she has been of course registered since December 2006.
Having arrived from Southampton yesterday afternoon and after a overnight and call ORIANA let go her ropes around 3:20pm local time.

ORIANA preparing to depart

Thrusting off from the berth shortly after without any blasts from her horn and picking up speed as she headed back out to sea and her next port of call Freeport in the Bahamas.

ORIANA picking up speed

 Watching as she departed it was hard not to feel a sadness seeing her looking pristine and as she always has elegant despite the tasteless livery yet knowing that her time in the west is coming to an end.

An overcast sky hangs over ORIANA as she sets course for the Bahamas

 ORIANA will make her final call in Bermuda on the 1st of March with one last call overnight in the port.

With a few passengers and crew on her decks ORIANA disappears from sight