It's a bright, sunny day with a sky of pale blue dotted with puffy white clouds edged with a dark grey. We're standing near the tide line of a warm-toned, pebbled beach where it meets a choppy sea of deep turquoise. A roll of a small breaker is just foaming right where the water and land meet. Across the stretch of water there is a low line of dark land stretching across the full width of the horizon dotted with obvious signs of towns and isolated buildings along its coast. Between us and the far land mass there are numerous vessels on the water but two are prominent. Slightly further away there is a passenger car ferry, mostly white, turned three quarters away from us so that it appears squat and higher than looks safe. Between the ferry and us a hovercraft is leaving the beach, travelling from left to right but now turning leftwards to angle in the same direction as the larger ship, with a white wake rippled on the water and huge clouds of spray kicked up partly hiding one of the hovercraft's fans.
For #MeerMittwoch here's a shot from 2010 in Southsea, looking across to the Isle of Wight with a passenger ferry and a hovercraft en route to the island. We always enjoy a flight on the hovercraft.
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