Random Ships 31

Saturday morning . . . sunrise . . . Gran Couva.

Same time . . . MTM Hamburg.

An hour later, Stolt Bobcat heads for sea.  Can you make out her original name in raised metal letters?

Golden Legend.   That’s Firefighter II overtaking to port and a boom boat to starboard.

MTM Hamburg inbound the Kills leased by Gramma Lee T Moran.

Voge Paul  in Gravesend Bay with Twin Tube and

Gran Couva Trinidad bound and

not a half hour later Afrodite in the offing bound

for Albany, where as of this writing, she’s not yet arrived.

All photos yesterday morning by Will Van Dorp.

 

Critters

Personal disclosure:  I used to enjoy playing football, but I’ve never watched a Super Bowl game.  I certainly have no feelings at all about any team, any sport.  But with all this talk of seahawks and broncos on ground hog day, I’m not oblivious: ground pork meatballs will go in my lunch stew.  This morning over coffee I decided to look up the history of the two teams soon to engage in New Jersey.  So the first owner of the broncos originally (prior to 1960) had a team called the bears.   And one of the two first investors in the seahawks was a Ned Skinner, scion of the Skinner & Eddy shipyard in Seattle and himself last owner/operator of the Alaska Steamship Company.

Anyhow . . . enjoy this digressive post, one that zags and zigs through a number of critters–like Stolt Bobcat–I’ve seen in the past year, as

well as this unusual logo on the side of a junked truck,

first signs of winter on the sixth boro,

my favorite fishing bird,

a quite effective gull,

my company atop a mountain in January River,

disciples of a certain waterborne tagger along the KVK,

the only good rat I’ve seen in a while over at Sal Polisi’s shop near South Street Seaport,

a beached shark, and finally

some docked rays struggling in the light of morning sun’s rays over by Owl’s Head.  And speaking of rays and ground hog . . .

I’m guessing Staten Island and Punxsutawney pick on ground hogs just because there are no convenient bears or badgers around to consult about winter weather.

Last critter word here, see a sea hawk and a bronco go toe-to-toe here.

Here was an earlier critter post.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who’s now off to grind the pork.

Ooops!  here’s one more critter link . . . from gCaptain, an inside look at a cattle/livestock carrier.

And another loops!  Read this NJstarledger article about birds here.