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Two weeks ago, Sandy raged, leaving a deadly and disastrous trail through the sixth boro and surrounding land masses. Athena has also blanketed us, through many green leaves somehow remain on trees. Companies are attempting to return to routine. Ever notice how much the KVK channel zigzags, as seen here with APL Spinel tailing Meagan Ann and her scow. The strait’s not at all straight.
Clearly what’s blasted from and scooped out of the AK is virgin rock.
Sandy scoured away much of the volunteer vegetation along the KVK. A foto taken here a month ago would show lots of weeds and a quite living tree.
The absence of cover makes it easier for this hawk to spot the “shore squirrels.”
Storms eroding a beach sometimes uncover shipwreck (here and here) , treasure, skeletons . . . all manner of stuff. See the last foto here, taken about 20 years ago. The surge along one section of the KVK unearthed dozens of these bricks. Is Belgian Syndicate a local firm?
A fair number of government boats are still around, like this one . . . taking advantage of unseasonal warmth . . . and
Clean Waters, a Region 2 EPA vessel I’d heard about but never seen until yesterday. Given Region 2′s size, I wonder how many other vessels–I saw Kenneth Biglane once once and that was already three years ago–they have and where they’re usually homeported.
Wright and Kennedy (only the stacks are visible forward of Wright’s house) are still in town. Understandably, some folks I’ve talked to still live in conditions far from normal.
I’m guessing this train–unusual as it is– has to do with the completion of a job, not Sandy: Sea Bear tows a train of eight or nine vessels, including Iron Wolf.
Yet, recreational sail has returned. Sun Dragon is the nearer.
Line handlers aboard CSAV Rio Aysen . . . (check their recent stops at that link) take in all this harbor activity. Vessel is named for a river in southern Chile.
All fotos yesterday by Will Van Dorp, for whom the sixth boro is among other things an ever-changing puzzle.
I needed smiles so bad that I went through the past few months of fotos looking for cheeriness. And as I put these up, the sun broke through what feels like two weeks of mostly clouds. A sea lion, and
a close up of a sea lion,
a deck seal,
lots of fish, and my pole-vaulting
amazon.
Yeah, and this goes out to Paul . . . I don’t know how you manage all those weeks on the job! Tomorrow I have got to get some R & R.
Meanwhile the clouds are back and Willie is in my ear.
Check out the light exactly two years ago . . . here. And my first greetings this morning came from the Easter ducks, who’d heard about an egg hunt, I believe. Mergansers passed too, but dove each time to hide bright colored bills.
Norwegian Gem, her bow painted like a post-modern Easter ovoid, sailed into a harbor entirely tinted with the rosy fingers of dawn, ending a passage from Cape Canaveral.
Bavaria made an attempt to get out to sea.
Nor Gem shrinks the closer she gets to Manhattan’s passenger terminal.
Sea Lion (1980) heads Jamaica Bay bound to deliver a crane.
Buchanan 12, (1972) herself made over and painted anew for an Easter parade, enters the east end of the KVK.
Pathfinder charges forward between MOL Express and Overseas Atalmar. Express left the Panama Canal 12 days ago, and will spend next Sunday in Europe.
A mariner stands watch. What I’d give to be able to tell you his name, history, and his thoughts as he heads for sea on a Sunday morning . . .
And two last beasts . . . unicorn and Oliphant . . . round out our marvelous menagerie
I hope you enjoy this day . . . All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
I took this foto at 15:40 yesterday, and I’ll call it “prelude to afternoon golden hour,” but this is a view of the turbine from the Battery Park direction. A few weeks ago, I recorded 18 minutes, so here’s more than twice that.
Geese head to wherever they go at dusk.
SalvageMaster passing Caletta ushers in the golden times, 16:30.
Over toward the Narrows, Hellas Progress radios in an initial departure call. In the distance, Tokyo Express approaches.
Lucy Reinauer pushing barge RTC 83 exits the KVK, followed
Kristy Ann, her bronze and red color enhanced by the setting sun.
By the time Kristy Ann reaches the Brooklyn half, Tokyo Express has started her approach into MOT, and
Hellas Progress has spun around toward the open sea.
By now, it’s 17:10, temperature starts to drop as quickly as the color intensifies.
It no longer feels like summer in February, nor does it look like it.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
But first, bowsprite’s talked about her online art store for some time, and yesterday . . . officially, she launched it. Please traffic it. I wouldn’t want her till to look like the one I found along the KVK yesterday. See the jam-packed cash drawer below. Come spring it might be full of green.
I love it when traffic in the KVK is dense: here (l. to r.) Mediterranean Sea, Siberian Sea (?), Margaret Moran, and Cosco Tianjin. In the distance is Robbins Reef Light and the old Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower in Brooklyn.
Dubai Express, Austin Reinauer, and Brendan Turecamo. Invisible on the starboard side of Dubai is James Turecamo.
Here a small Triple S Marine (Aren’t they based in Louisiana?) boat bounces past Lucy Reinauer.
APL Japan, Elizabeth McAllister, Marion Moran, and McAllister Sisters . . . I believe, with the Brooklyn skyline in the distance.
Meagan Ann and OOCL Norfolk . . . with cables of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges in the distance.
Sea Lion pushes a barge of equipment ahead of MOL Endurance.
Among the pieces of equipment on this Mobro barge, what intrigued me was this Caterpillar designed to operate in wet places.
Finally for now . . . Beaufort Sea tails Maria J and Frederick E. Bouchard.
With traffic this heavy, I can see bowsprite will be very busy drawing and sketching while the robots staff the store. Or maybe she could have robotos out sketching while she keeps the rust off her cash register?
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Thomas D. Witte . . . I did nothing to manipulate this image, no liquification, no DAP . . .
Yet another Mighty Servant 1 foto with four movers of the Miller’s Launch fleet. As of this writing, the Mighty is still anchored at the Narrows. Bravo on what appears to have been a flawless loading.
Gustav Schulte passes the loading on a very slow bell, partly because of the tow happening off its port bow also.
I’m not sure what this tow is . . . Sea Lion (?) and a thousand feet tailing it. The tail boat may be Iron Wolf. Can anyone help?
December means fishing on the sixth boro . . . here’s a newcomer for me . . . Mary Virginia (ex-Maazee).
Irish Sea moves a barge into the Bay.
Eagle Baltimore and Liechtenstein swing on the hook.
Crystal Cutler does too.
Shearwater motors out the east end of KVK headed, I believe, for North Cove.
Crystal Marie exits the Narrows.
Happy last day of Fall 2011.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. And this just in . . . as of noon today, Mighty Servant 1 exited the Bay Nigeria-bound. I hope the good folks on Meagan Ann get a foto they will share.
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