Voyage North - a photo essay: (23) back in UK waters

As we sailed south from Reykjavik we sailed into proper dark nights and somewhat shorter days. We passed through the Pentland Firth (between the north of Scotland and the Orkney Islands) in the late afternoon. Many of us were out on deck, expecting to get a good view of the Old Man of Hoy. We did get a view, but a distant view, and not really a good one, as the sea mist was thickening into fog as we approached, and the sun only started to light up the cliffs of Orkney Mainland after we'd passed by Hoy.

The following evening we were off the coast of Norfolk, with land in sight, as evening started to fall. We passed by Sheringham Shoal Wind Farm in hazy, failing light:

Later, still in the vicinity of this enormous wind farm, the late rays of the sinking sun caught, rather dramatically, the side of a passing ship:

And the sun - obligingly for the photographer! - set behind the turbines:

The following morning we docked early at Tilbury and headed our various ways home, assailed by the hot humidity of the late July heatwave.

Postscript
Three weeks after returning, these two pieces about Greenland appeared in the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2019/aug/12/life-on-thin-ice-mental-health-at-the-heart-of-the-climate-crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/greenland-residents-traumatised-by-climate-emergency