This ship seems, to me, to be a very big ship!
This photo was taken on 2nd August 2009, looking across Portland Harbour, in Dorset.Portland Harbour will be the base for the sailing events of the 2012 Olympics.
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What's over the top? This is what Hermes and Debbie asked when I showed this photo on 'Pictures Just Pictures'.
. . . This is what you see when you come over the brow on this stretch of path.
Portland Harbour - where the sailing events for the 2012 Olympics will be taking place - and Portland in the distance.
Not that I recommend you take your eye off the path, or you'll be tumbling down here.
Over and over, people make new paths as the old ones crumble away;
higher, then higher . . .
So that's what I do now - take the higher path, in case that next edge is ready to tip.
There are lots of little coves below; each one protected from the waves by boulders. They loop in and out like a lace edging.
Gorse burns - and there's a lot of gorse round here. This fire was recent; the smell of burning so strong it may still have been smoldering. On the way back, I met women bringing buckets of water to put out a smaller fire before it spread.
This is another photo from Pictures Just Pictures, 'Rusted Rails Near Ferrybridge'. This is where the path I was on meets with the route of the old line to Portland. When I first walked here, the tracks had been lifted but there was nothing but broken stone under foot. It has a tarmac surface now and lots of people walk or cycle in and out of town along it. Great! Except I feel a bit churlish. It was nice to be here when hardly anyone else was!
15 comments:
It´s certainly big and I wonder if they could have put a couple more containers on it. I think not.
Hello Chrome 3d.
I don't know how far away the ship was when I took the photo - but I'd guess two or two-and-a-half miles. I can't imagine how big it must be when one gets closer!
A lovely day! Lets hope we have more like this one!
Thanks for showing! It looks like a ferry!
I love big container ships--saw one the other month at a state park in Monroe, and they're often on the Detroit River downtown.
Hello Reader Wil - I'm not sure what kind of ferry you mean - but I think this vessel would probably be able to transport several.
It's the way they are able to balance the containers which gets me - that and that the whole thing doesn't sink!
Hello Monica - I would expect to hate container ships but they fascinate me too. Sometimes, they are even cheerful.
This one must have been exceptionally large. (At least, for round here.) My camera was set to its most distant zoom - the harbour wall is about two miles away and you may have noticed that that is big enough to take a building on top of it.
I'm interested that you see container ships on the Detroit river. That makes sense given the industrial nature of the area but it still came as a surprise to me. I'll have to do some Google images-ing.
Wow, it sure dwarfs the sailboats. Nice capture.
Nothing like a good container ship. I missed seeing them pass by on the horizon (I'm near shoreham port here) when I was in China.
Did remind me of a rather gruesome episode of CSI New York and the second series of the Wire too.
(mmm...Stringer Bell! :) )
Hello Gaelyn. I don't know how big this container ship is when compared with others of its kind - but from where I was standing, it looked as if it should dwarf just about everything - not just sailing boats!
Hello J.
It's at moments like this that I'm missing out on ways of seeing because I have no television!
I would think in the parts of China which trade by sea, the container ships would be amongst the biggest in the world. Would that be right?
Cool shot. Looks like a huge cliff sailing along.
A beautiful picture of sailing boats!!
Hello, Lady Fi.
Yes, just like a cliff. Imagine being up close to it! Imagine climbing it!
Hello Marju. There are lots of sailing boats because there is a sailing club nearby.
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