Riverbanks 12
I might have to put this post into a context of riverbanks, or you’ll think I’ve lost my mind. My sense is that I’ve just opened it a bit. This blog IS called a waterblog, and there is water in this post, but there’s also–like negative space in photos–“negative water” here, i.e., geological structure and […]
Riverbanks 11
Here are previous riverbanks posts, although for some inexplicable reason, they are not indexed in order. Name the riverbank in the image below? Above and below, that’s Manhattan, as seen from about 30 miles out. It would take another four hours before we passed the 59th Street Bridge. The darker image in the center […]
RetroJune 2017-21
The Hudson treats the traveler with magical sights like these. The castle atop the lush riverbank is still there, but that tug–Viking–is no more. I’m not sure the disposition of DBL 134. One morning soon after sunrise that summer 2017 I followed Delaware a ways up the Hudson before overtaking her. Ernest Campbell had started […]
Headwaters 7
I hope you’re enjoying my juggling of alternating author persona: in this post, I’m back to tugster retrospectives. Remember this sixth boro boat? It carried a powerful Norse name. It was a favorite of mine too. Back when I took the photo in 2008, I thought I’d never see a pushboat with variable height wheelhouse […]
Other Peoples Photos 92
Since we’ve had some extreme weather, how about a different type of extreme . . . with NYC DEP sludge tanker Red Hook approaching the unique Riverbank State Park, one of three state parks within Manhattan, the one with a wastewater treatment plant beneath it. I’ve just read that it’s now renamed the Denny Farrell […]
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 […]
Something Different 67 B
Part A was here. Here is the start of the actual trip on the Integrated Tug Barge (ITB) that led to this blog. Giant pusher tugs like the ITB Major Vangu were sometimes referred to as K-boats, because they ran between key river cities of Kinshasa and Kisangani. Waterfalls above Kisangani and below Kinshasa blocked […]
12 Riverbank Landmarks
Framed by the new towers at Hudson Yards, this is NYC of an era, but still visible today, and the best vantage point is, of course, the water. The Empire State Building and the New Yorker Hotel were completed within a year of each other. One of these days I need to make time to […]
Retro Sixth Boro 14
I hope you all are enjoying these glances back a decade as much as I enjoy putting them together. If you weren’t paying attention back then, this hints at how much the traffic in the harbor has changed, just as it has on the roads. If you were watching back in spring 2009, you might […]
Riverbanks 10
Here are previous installments focusing on background. Sometimes the partial reveal and the juxtaposition highlight what’s on the shorelines, like those triple deckers in Bayonne that would blend in perfectly in many 19th century mill towns. Or the hugely forgotten Singer plant in Elizabeth, hugely forgotten by most residents of Elizabeth, that is. Imagine, if someone […]
tugster: a waterblog 