Random Nola Tugs 7
“What do you like about New Orleans?” A friend asked me that recently. Different answers exist: ubiquitous and diverse music, unique architecture, history and present through all the senses, spicy and delicious food, free spirits, bons temps roulants… this list can be even longer. But for me, the traffic on the river is without rival […]
Dense Traffic Nola
Sitting on the levee in Nola, I note a variety of watercraft passing by no less assorted than the revelers in the French Quarter. Well . . . How about as differentiated as the contents of the best 15 bloody marys in Nola? Well, let’s see the photos below , or see past Nola posts […]
Multifarious Traffic Nola
Call this grand finale, third of three on Nola traffic . . . but of course, that’s contrived; there is no finale except to my reporting. Powered traffic has operated here since Roosevelt, the great grand uncle and aunt of TR, Nicholas Roosevelt and Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt, their second arrival there in 1811! I’d love […]
Assorted Traffic Nola
If they fly the flag, maybe they do the deeds, or maybe they had been too busy shrimping to notice what the deckhand ran up the mast. Maybe they were just both at Journey’s End. Lizzy B. Moran returned from an assist. This unnamed trawler–I forgot to look at the transom because I was so […]
Random Mississippi Tugs* 1
A few days ago I’d posted “Random Nola Tugs 7” and asked what type of tugboat I’d omitted, and you came through. As I address that omission, I realize it’s misleading to call these vessels “Nola tugs,” since they –like all vessels and other machines of transportation–move. Period. Even “Mississippi River tugs” is misleading because […]
Yachts a Million 6
Planet 9 was in the boro for some time, and actually recently left. Specs can be found here, although I don’t know if it’s currently for sale or just changed hands. I suspect it’s the former. At any rate it’ll change hands for a mere $100 million. I’m not sure how large a fleet is […]
Out of the Bayou . . . Recap 1
Even if you’re not a regular reader of this blog or you lack a photographic memory, you just know from the photo below that Legs III has completed its journey. Bravo Seth and crew. So let’s go back to the land of liftboats and have another look, since I’ve got “binders full of” boat photos […]
Tugster Retro 2013 B
The first half of January 2013–a decade ago–was one long gallivant, taking in New Orleans to St Louis to Pittsburgh and then back home. In the spirit of these retro posts, let me start here, shooting right off the Algiers ferry. Barbara E. Bouchard is now Dann M’s Turquoise Coast, which I’ve not seen. No […]
Something Different 65
I traveled RT by air last week, and as usual, tried to spot landmarks, entertainment for the map fan that I am. Mount Vernon is how the smart phone labels it. I’d call it a view of Mobile Bay at dusk, looking south. I concur with the phone that this is New Orleans, one of […]
Sixth Boro Diaspora
You might have known that I had the good fortune to gallivant most of last week, and it’s tough to gallivant without recording some images. I took several hundred photos, and not only of boats and ships. As with infants, humans in unfamiliar places detect patterns, familiar details. Pattern recognition kicked in when I […]
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