Rossville Tug
...the silhouette of an old tug boat in the Rossville ship graveyard on Staten Island.
I went out here with Rick Elkins. Rick did most of the research on the place. Aparently this is a place they dump old boats and let them sit and rot. It is full of old ferries and other boats, but most of the wrecks are tugboats. Check it out on googleearth. This place is huge.
It was always going to be a challenge to venture out here. Rick read that (and there is actually a video) of somebody getting here through a graveyard (a normal one). Somebody else went through a garden.
It turned out that the graveyard was small, but that the recent rains had filled up the area close to the boats with mud. We retreated. Next we decided against going through the garden and instead went through the yard of a store - the yard was closed on the way back which forced us to sneak through the garden...really glad I was not alone out here.
On the second approach we got close to the boats. Sadly, the sunset was cloudly so we missed the nice light and darkness was rapidly approaching. The ships are old so we were really careful about walking on them. We were about to give up when we decided to climb an old structure that looked pretty solid. I ventured out on one of the old beams...
On one side there was murky looking mud and on the other a hole in the rotten structure. I took all these shots from there using a big iron part of the structure to stabilize my tripod. This iron part was jutting up and I lodged my tripod around it by using it as a stool. It was not ideal. I even changed lenses out there. Rick thought that was insane - and it was, but I needed at least one shot. All this work just to get no shots? No way!
Here are some of the other shots from this location taken by others on Flickr. Rick found all these...it is a fascinating spot, but somewhat risky especially at night!
www.flickr.com/photos/vogelium/sets/72157602651703532/
www.flickr.com/photos/8794204@N02/sets/72157602792802455/
www.flickr.com/photos/mercurialn/sets/72157594209653053/
www.flickr.com/photos/94215313@N00/sets/72057594057302322/
www.flickr.com/photos/fiveoftoast/sets/72157594402526821/
and one I found...and flickr most interesting...
www.flickr.com/photos/kevinskoepke/sets/72157604331396099/
www.flickr.com/search/?q=rossville&w=all&s=int
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I was not sure about this edit. Nevertheless it is more realistic than the original which just got a silhouette of a tug against the brightly lit warehouse. I posted another warmer edit below.
While I was shooting this a ship passed and I got the streaks behind two of these tug skeletons (see the next shot in the stream). Here is another one of the environment and the ship...
www.flickr.com/photos/85625337@N00/2019730145/
Rossville Tug
...the silhouette of an old tug boat in the Rossville ship graveyard on Staten Island.
I went out here with Rick Elkins. Rick did most of the research on the place. Aparently this is a place they dump old boats and let them sit and rot. It is full of old ferries and other boats, but most of the wrecks are tugboats. Check it out on googleearth. This place is huge.
It was always going to be a challenge to venture out here. Rick read that (and there is actually a video) of somebody getting here through a graveyard (a normal one). Somebody else went through a garden.
It turned out that the graveyard was small, but that the recent rains had filled up the area close to the boats with mud. We retreated. Next we decided against going through the garden and instead went through the yard of a store - the yard was closed on the way back which forced us to sneak through the garden...really glad I was not alone out here.
On the second approach we got close to the boats. Sadly, the sunset was cloudly so we missed the nice light and darkness was rapidly approaching. The ships are old so we were really careful about walking on them. We were about to give up when we decided to climb an old structure that looked pretty solid. I ventured out on one of the old beams...
On one side there was murky looking mud and on the other a hole in the rotten structure. I took all these shots from there using a big iron part of the structure to stabilize my tripod. This iron part was jutting up and I lodged my tripod around it by using it as a stool. It was not ideal. I even changed lenses out there. Rick thought that was insane - and it was, but I needed at least one shot. All this work just to get no shots? No way!
Here are some of the other shots from this location taken by others on Flickr. Rick found all these...it is a fascinating spot, but somewhat risky especially at night!
www.flickr.com/photos/vogelium/sets/72157602651703532/
www.flickr.com/photos/8794204@N02/sets/72157602792802455/
www.flickr.com/photos/mercurialn/sets/72157594209653053/
www.flickr.com/photos/94215313@N00/sets/72057594057302322/
www.flickr.com/photos/fiveoftoast/sets/72157594402526821/
and one I found...and flickr most interesting...
www.flickr.com/photos/kevinskoepke/sets/72157604331396099/
www.flickr.com/search/?q=rossville&w=all&s=int
..................
I was not sure about this edit. Nevertheless it is more realistic than the original which just got a silhouette of a tug against the brightly lit warehouse. I posted another warmer edit below.
While I was shooting this a ship passed and I got the streaks behind two of these tug skeletons (see the next shot in the stream). Here is another one of the environment and the ship...
www.flickr.com/photos/85625337@N00/2019730145/