Other Watersheds 17B
You know from the previous “other watersheds 17” that this is the Amazon, so look at the color of the water. If you want to read a scholarly article–albeit an old one–check this one out. If you want to see satellite photos of the mouth, where this silty freshwater mixes with the ocean, click […]
Other Watersheds 7: Reredux
Here was the first redux for the Delaware. Handy Three appeared on this blog almost a decade ago in a different livery and in a different port. Of course, she’s been a Moran tugboat for a half dozen years already. In the background above, that’s the 1968-commissioned, 2007-decommissioned USS John F. Kennedy. Several hundred yards […]
Other Watersheds 17 A
I don’t need to use a paternity test to prove that my daughter is in fact my daughter. You can tell by looking at her travel resume. Some years ago i thought I’d lose her to this country because she kept extending her stay. Granted she was there to work, as I can claim for […]
Other Watersheds 12 Redux B
If I have these dates right, Pieter Boele was built in 1893! Clearly this hull was built for towing, that bow not built for pushing. Of course, the same would be true of the 1913 Jan de Sterke. Dockyard IX dates from 1915. I know the small tug is called Furie, considered a push boat. […]
Other Watersheds 12 Redux A
Eight years ago, I had the opportunity to go to the steam festival on the waterways in Dordrecht NL. Here, here, and here are posts that came from that. That festival has just completed again, and thanks to Jan van der Doe, here are photos of some fine restored circa century-old Dutch steam tugs. Hercules, […]
Other Watersheds 7: The Delaware Redux
Almost exactly a decade ago I did this post. Today I decided to add to it and broaden the geographic scope. Stick with me to see how broadened this gets. From the Delaware Memorial Bridge to the entrance of Delaware Bay is about 100 miles. Near the entrance you see big water and big traffic, […]
Hail to the New 2
Whether you’re working or not, January 1 is a transition, a bridge between years. And that brings me to the handsome bridges below. The nearest is a rail bridge. Can you identify the location? Here you can see parts of all four bridges. Answer follows, but I’m thinking to float and paddle through here in […]
22Rivers Epic
See the man on the pier using his cell phone to get a photo? I wonder what he imagined he was looking at, other than a group on the water on a spectacular December day. Did he know he was witnessing the culmination of an odyssey? The Columbia, Snake, Clark Fork, Missouri, Mississippi, [to saltwater] […]
Something Different 67 C
Parts A and B are here. Today’s post concludes this story of my Congo River trip, 1973. Wednesday midday the ITB and all the barges finally stopped for the first time in a place called Bolobo. No dock per se existed, but the lead starboard barge was near enough the bank that long planks were […]
Retro Piscataqua Mouth
Yes . . . I’ve been off wifi and away from the sixth boro, sometimes admiring images like the one below. I’m back now and have more photos from July 2010 to revisit the Piscataqua, and a watershed where I canoed, kayaked, and just generally roamed from 1986 until 2000, along with some hiatuses out […]
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