WLV-612 Redux

Sometimes serendipity smiles on me.  Like yesterday.  I’d left quite early for an event and saw this red dot on the horizon.  If I hadn’t seen the vessel before, I might have thought it a phantasm.  But four-plus years ago, I’d even gotten a tour of WLV-612 . . . a vessel so exquisite inside now you have to take your shoes off, not for security but just because the floors  . . . are gorgeous.

 

This is the Norton Point Light . . . technically the Coney Island Light at Norton Point.  Vessel in the distance is Rotterdam Express.

Not a rock and a hard place . . . but a bridge and a parachute jump . . . .

As if on someone’s invisible cue, the sun broke through overcast sky for about 30 seconds just

before she passed under the VZ Bridge and

crossed paths with Mediterranean Sea heading out to pick up a barge.

To repeat myself . . . if I hadn’t known Nantucket was spending winter in the sixth boro doing events, I might have questioned my perception or sanity, but

knowing that she’s around still did not diminish

the sheer joy I felt seeing her.  My afternoon definitely picked up after this.   Is that Pati R. Moran?

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.  And truth be told, seeing this reminded me of a song I loved as a youth growing up in what today would be called an fundamentalist immigrant place.  Tennesee Ernie Ford version and church version.