Sunshine and blue skies drew me to the beach at Ship Harbor, one time site of a salmon cannery or two. The harbor is now home to the state ferry terminal. I’m reminded of the stalagmites I once saw in Luray Caverns in Virginia, but there’s nothing natural about these formations. The heaping mounds of […]
It’s almost as though they’ve left the vessel open for our viewing pleasure. Work continues in earnest on this ship at Dakota Creek Industries shipyard, just one block off Commercial Avenue. I’m not sure about vessel particulars, but it’s been fascinating to watch the project come together.
I hurried to the dock at Randy’s Pier 61 to watch a tanker and tugs motor past, and was surprised to find the Garth Foss and Lindsey Foss conducting a mid-channel turnaround instead. Within minutes, the two tug crews had pushed and pulled what I believe to be a petroleum coke vessel so that the […]
On a break between games over the weekend I took this photo of a Viking ship carved by brother Rich a few years back. Like many families in Anacortes, ours is a family line that leads to Norway (and Denmark on mom’s side) by way of Minnesota (North Dakota on mom’s side). We explain to […]