Some absolutely charming photographs of a container ship running aground near a Mexican port from the San Diego Union-Tribune. I find shipwrecks oddly romantic, somehow. This one's quite good, evocative and somehow ethereal or possibly surreal, something in the way the ship is lit in the background. But for sheer grandeur and majesty, this one must take the proverbial cake. Just look at the size of her! And to think, wee tiny little humans like us built it...And then crashed it into a sandbar. How many species can say something that? Makes you proud to be a hominid.
A night shot! Don't you love that colour? Maybe I should chuck the maths thing in the bin and become a sailor. Pity I can't swim.
Apparently the ship is owned by a German firm called Mare Britannicum Schiffahrtsgesellschaft MBH & Co. I never could figure out how the German language can include words like that when they have so much decent beer about. "Schiffahrtsgesessellshigafahrsg...shiffiffifigafis..shis...oh bumsen es. Wo ist das crapper?"
Something to think about.
Posted by aloysius at March 11, 2006 02:27 PM |