At 311m in length the cruise liner Voyager of the Seas is hard to miss - especially while reversing carefully into Napier Port yesterday afternoon she made the two container ships being worked look like maritime midgets.
The tip of the 137,276 gross tonne liner's funnel easily took the title of being the highest point of the port landscape during its six-hour stay, far exceeding the tallest container crane.
In terms of height, the liner is effectively a 12-storey building.
It was the Royal Caribbean International line ship's first of three visits to Hawke's Bay this cruise season.
She is scheduled to call again on January 31 and February 28, and like yesterday will almost certainly again draw scores of people to the Hardinge Rd foreshore and the Bluff Hill lookout to see a true giant of the seas.