(Note: Doubleclick enlarges all fotos)
What’s this . . . fiddling and dancing and taking shade near
Lower Manhattan, an intriguing hideaway in that bustling and ranted-about geography?
And this . . . same location, but doesn’t that suggest two folks standing near the forward railing
on a tug “made to” the 79 Barge, which
moves other folks as well, here photographing the Brooklyn Bridge at golden hour, as
crew stands lookout, watching two tugs–Volunteer and W. O. Decker–heading east on the river of the same name . . .
… uh . . . this meandering string started out as a question. Forget the question, please. And I hope you get a sense of places of peace in the bestirred land masses around the sixth boro.
Here’s the same tug and barge, clearly lashed, at Pier 6 in the new Brooklyn Bridge Park, with a late August sun setting behind the house. You can catch Pegasus and Lehigh Valley Barge #79 at that location until Tuesday, August 31 … and at points along the Hudson for the next 16 days after that.
After sunset . . . Pegasus heads over to homebase in Jersey City. Hey . . . tugs and crews need sleep.
Check out bowsprite’s magical drawings of the duo here.
All fotos here taken yesterday by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated but fascinating: Marie’s Tide & Current Taxi has been busy this month:
August 9: Coney Island Creek, with Debbie Tuch and me
August 10: Gowanus Canal
August 12: Staten Island “graveyard of ships”
August 15: Shooter’s Island
August 22: “mystery tour”
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August 28, 2010 at 10:11 am
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August 28, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Mage Bailey
Marie’s stuff blog is so nice….but no notes allowed. Darn. Your blog is beyond compare…..now I am off to Blogspirits home and will end up just smiling my noon away.
August 29, 2010 at 10:05 pm
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