Tag:Boat
At 3:00 am on the morning of November 16, 1982, the crew of the Meisho Maru No. 38 issued an emergency call for help. Their ship had run aground about 1.5 km west of Cape Agulhas, the most southerly point in Africa.
Consequently we ended up down at the harbor at midnight, which is when I captured the image above. The low angle of the sun, hanging just above the horizon, provided ‘golden hour’ light for the warm tones in this shot.
The two bridges in this view span the river at Carter Road. The blue bridge is active and carries the road traffic. The rusting bridge in front of it carried one of the railway spurs that used to serve the industrial area known locally as The Flats.
Unlike yesterday’s image, this one took a bit more effort. I didn’t see the abandoned row-boat when I pulled the car off the road, just the inlet. It was as I was trying to get a better perspective on the inlet that I spied the boat in the weeds. I had to scramble down a muddy hillside, navigate some thorny bushes and cross a small stream to get the boat in the foreground of my shot. All of which left […]
