A distant port near broadside view, taken from just abaft the beam, of the Orient Line passenger cruise ship Orontes (1929) anchored in the roadstead at Calvi, Corsica. The photographer is on a high vantage point overlooking Calvi showing the Grand Hotel on the left and the Hotel Colombani on the right. In the foreground is a cactus that resembles a giant asparagus and is almost certainly an Agave Americana (century plant), a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae.