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I take a lot of photos. A few are extraordinary, IMHO. The photo below ranks among that select set.
Above and below, it’s Jonathan C Moran. Sharon Sea heads for sea above.
Atlantic Salvor takes yet another scow filled with dredge spoils out to the dumping grounds.
Atlantic Dawn heads out.
Emily Ann tows Chesapeake 1000 down toward Norfolk.
St Andrews moves a petro barge.
Frances has a headline to a barge in the anchorage.
Two Vane boats wait in Gowanus Bay.
And James D. has a line onto ONE Stork.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Leg 3 took us from Beaufort NC to the Elizabeth River, Norfolk.
Again, when I’m back, I’ll catch up on identifying in words what you can identify yourself.
Morehead City is a deepwater port.
After some rough weather spent in port, the shrimp fleet heads back to work . . . parade style.
Yup . . . I like it.
The long bridge at the top end of NC.
I can’t wait to play with night images I took as we approached Norfolk. Just enough water vapor in the air traced the line of the spot light as we confirmed location buoy by buoy . . . 0300.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I didn’t understand the name Bulldog until I put together the fact that the University of Georgia team mascot is Uga, the bulldog. And there have been Ugas going back for a long time. Google it.
Meanwhile, I’m hoping to get from the #4 US port for volume to the #3 port by the end of Sunday. All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
Ironically, Road Fotos 17 were taken where this post ends up. And I had planned NOT to post today, but . . . time affords posting, and posting makes a drive more like a gallivant. Given that I drove to Hampton Roads, it’s interesting to reflect on what scenes are absent from this post. Three hours after locking my house door, I was on New Jersey at the southern tip on NJ, looking
across Delaware Bay, where I narrowly missed a close up
with a Kirbyfied . . . can you guess? . . . .
Greenland Sea. Lots of other vessels anchored just outside the channel, here looking roughly toward the northwest.
Entering Lewes, we met a dozen or so dolphins . . . who all managed to evade
my camera, which seems to be more skilled with stationary objects like this pilot boat.
I’m guessing a fish boat, although I’ve not seen this configuration before. It reminds me of an updated version of a menhaden boat?
The Cape Charles light is a skeleton a quarter mile inland.
The lights at Fort Story in the background, and Trabzon and Red Iris anchored outside Hapmton Roads.
This might be USS Samuel Eliot Morison foreground and USCGC Legare farther away. And then again, the nearer vessel might be something else.
And finally, any guesses what Atlantic Dawn is towing into the mouth the the Chesapeake?
Cutterhead dredge Illinois!! If Illinois makes it all the way to the sixth boro, you know who will have more opportunities to perfect her rendition of the toothy snouted machine.
And the reason for this gallivant–other than gallivanting for its own sake– will be clearer tomorrow.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp today.
@#$#!! . . . as I write this, USAV Winfield Scott is passing the precise location Atlantic Dawn was 90 minutes ago. To see USAV Winfield Scott, check Jed’s most recent post here.
Scroll back to Christmas Day, 2008, already last year. What were you doing at or about noon? If you read this blog regularly, you might recall that I had incarnated that day as an elf as part of PortSide NewYork‘s Operation Christmas Cheer. As an elf with a camera, I took these fotos of Atlantic Dawn, which
seems to be its own company, contracting out. On Christmas Day, it was moored to this flotilla where nearby a grab
brought up parts of the harbor bed deemed
misplaced, in-the-way, slated for removal to
other places, other ocean floor areas.
Inestimable thanks to Harold Tartell for this link and more info about Atlantic Dawn and Gulf Dawn, both frequent in the sixth boro but hailing from Gretna, LA, west bank of the Mississippi but east of New Orleans.
Unrelated: Sirius Star oil, well-seasoned, is free to move out of Somali waters. The hijacked Saudi tanker owners are $3 million lighter. Hmm.
Photos, WVD.
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