Whenever I’ve seen this vessel, I had associations with a huge river in a big country.
These blue-white designs, though, didn’t conjure up that tropical river, yet they were strangely familiar.
The “upside-down V” didn’t initially strike me a Greek letter lambda either.
Later I started looking differently to try to figure out why that Greek frieze design looked familiar. I’ve only been in Greece once and that was almost half a lifetime ago. Now it strikes me as strange that I didn’t think of the huge multinational e-commerce and tech company, the one who created a zillionaire.
Amazon Beauty was once Greek-flagged, but it’s not any more. Now it appears to be shuttling some product between Point Tupper NS and Linden NJ.
Have you figured out the blue/white pattern and why it might be familiar?
Click here for the New York coffee cup, the ubiquitous vessel for coffee at one time, and now eclipsed by DD and Starbucks.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who send greetings to the photographer up in Point Tupper, who will get photos when she arrives.
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January 18, 2020 at 12:07 pm
Seth Tane
Tanker bringing fuel for the generating station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Tupper_Generating_Station
January 18, 2020 at 12:27 pm
Bruce Richards
Only spoiled by a McAllister tug alongside 😩
Regards,
Bruce
January 18, 2020 at 1:41 pm
tugster
you must work for the other company, Bruce?
January 18, 2020 at 6:28 pm
Phil Little
It would appear from the Wiki that this power pant is now coal-fired, currently supplying 6% of the province’s power but 11% of the air pollution! (cough, cough!)
What is even more interesting, the Wiki article says that there also is a WOOD-fired power plant there, consuming 750,000 tons of wood per year. Prevent forest fires….turn all the wood into electricity!