Early Morning Preening
The Great Blue Herons have returned to the West End of Vancouver and will soon be establishing nests in the Stanley Park rookery at the base of my street. This view is out my apartment window, looking towards English Bay and the freighters anchored there--there's also a Horseshoe Bay-Nanimo ferry that can be seen against Bowen Island on the right horizon.
Much of Vancouver's shipping is bulk cargo (wood chips, fertilizer, grain, petrolium products, sugar, coal, sulpher, etc.) rather than containerized shipping. As the terminals are fewer and the loading process longer, bulk freighters wait their turn while anchored in English Bay. You can tell by how high they are sitting in the water (how much of the red color is showing) that most of these ships are empty.
Early Morning Preening
The Great Blue Herons have returned to the West End of Vancouver and will soon be establishing nests in the Stanley Park rookery at the base of my street. This view is out my apartment window, looking towards English Bay and the freighters anchored there--there's also a Horseshoe Bay-Nanimo ferry that can be seen against Bowen Island on the right horizon.
Much of Vancouver's shipping is bulk cargo (wood chips, fertilizer, grain, petrolium products, sugar, coal, sulpher, etc.) rather than containerized shipping. As the terminals are fewer and the loading process longer, bulk freighters wait their turn while anchored in English Bay. You can tell by how high they are sitting in the water (how much of the red color is showing) that most of these ships are empty.