Call me smitten . . . but when I must, I can walk away. The waving girl waved, but when I approached and proposed some fairly straight forward project, she said naught. Nothing. Mute she was! Taciturnus maximus! And so, upriver I headed. With regrets galore, of course, for my own protection. Whatever there is of Tugster that needs to be protected. But before I left, I tried to play with perspectives not available in the sixth boro . . . aka 6B.
Like . . . height. YM Los Angeles as seen from a little over 100′ above the water head on and
over the bow bulwarks at dusk.
Georgia Queen on New Year’s Eve, as seen from the same height.
Relative to the secure Cape Henlopen, see the bow wave coming off this Hapag-Lloyd vessel, and the next time I see that logo, billboard-size, on the side of a ship, I’ll remember
that the letter “g” might open to reveal this hatch.
Energy Puma heads upsteam only
to spin around and head for sea to suckle
via these color-coded ports and hoses hither and yon and next yon . . . .
CMA CGM Swordfish heads up to the container port. I need to work on taking better night fotos in 2010.
Inventana shows that the golden hour, with sun low on the horizon, is indeed the best time for fotos.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who by now hopes to be in Virginia, making his way back to the sixth boro, with Georgia–at least Savannah–on my mind. I’m blessed to have excellent navigators–Elizabeth and a parrot–helping me see the otherwise unseen. Well, the parrot does suggest tangents we can’t quite follow.
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January 4, 2010 at 10:58 am
tana
Oh Savananah! She’s been on my mind and here you go posting some lovely pics too. I could make that place home in a heartbeat. Happy New Year Will and all the best to you and Elizabeth.
January 4, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Mage B
What a lovely vacation you are taking us all on. Thank you.
January 4, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Daniel
Cape Henlopen. Named for the Cape that’s named for the little Frisian town where my great-grandmama was born.
January 4, 2010 at 8:57 pm
tugster
daniel–great to hear from you. what’s the location of that town??
January 14, 2010 at 8:25 am
Daniel
Hindelopen. A tiny former Hanseatic town. Just south of Makkum. Three languages spoken there. Dutch. Frisian. Hylpens. Hylpens is a dialect of Frisian so strong that many regard it as a language of its own. There are so many versions of the name of the town. Hindelopen, Henlopen, Hijnljeppen, Hylpen, Hylpin. And I doubt I have the spelling right.
It seems to me that there’s another Cape Henlopen somewhere in the South Seas or the Arctic, but it escapes me which.
I’ve heard it claimed that Delaware’s existence separate from Maryland dates from (or is a function of) the Dutch settlement Swanendaal on Cape Henlopen, Delaware.