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The Clipper Round the World fleet docked at the Foyle Port Marina on the River Foyle in L'Derry, Northern Ireland.
The Clipper fleet returned to L'Derry after Leg 8 - The Atlantic Homecoming Leg from the East Coast of the USA.
… this colossus once lifted the guns of HMS Hood and the engines of the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth. It even survived the Blitz when Clydebank was virtually wiped out by German bombs in March 1941.
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A Toronto streetcar travels past cyclists and joggers along Queens Quay, framed by yellowing trees and modern architecture. This stretch of the waterfront captures the city’s rhythm — where transit, movement, and everyday life intersect by the lake.
© Ashley L. Duffus 2025
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Queens Quay is a prominent street in the Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The street was originally commercial in nature due to the many working piers along the waterfront; parts of it have been extensively rebuilt in since the 1970s with parks, condominiums, retail, and institutional and cultural development.
Blue trim details of Number One York Quay, part of the Harbour Square Toronto Waterfront condominium complex that features five high rise towers. Designed by Stanford Downey Architects and completed in 1990.
Harbourfront-CityPlace Neighbourhood
Architect: Kirkor Architects and Planners
Building Type: High-rise
Current Use: Residential
"Located on Queens Quay West between York Street and Lower Simcoe, the Waterclub complex has three gleaming glass towers above a mixed-commercial space providing residents with some ground-level convenience. "
Created for Shock of the New!! New Challenge 12.0 ~ Boats, Planes, Trains & Automobiles.
My musical suggestion is: 'Let Go' - Frou Frou
suppose my eye should miss the intersection... or should think I saw it... or saw it but started seeing more and more... is that where poetry comes from? For me, that's the case... or the perception... or the misperception. It is, however, where imagination dwells.
the Toronto CN Tower from Queen's Quay: Once the pouring of the concrete was completed on February 22, 1974, the final stages of building the world's tallest Tower were about to begin.
The last thing to be added to the Tower was the 102 metre (335 foot) steel broadcasting antenna, consisting of 44 pieces - the heaviest weighing 7.26 metric tonnes (8 tons).
Before the antenna could be lifted, however, the giant crane used for four years of round-the-clock service to build the Tower would have to be dismantled and brought down.
To do all this moving, "Olga" - a 10 ton Sikorsky helicopter used primarily for industrial lifting - was flown to Toronto.
And on her first trip, tragedy almost struck. www.cntower.ca/en-ca/about-us/history/topping-of-tower.html
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One in a series of iconic urban docks, the Rees WaveDeck is a stunning addition to Toronto’s waterfront.
Completed in 2009, the Rees wavedeck was the third urban dock built to create more public space along one of the most heavily used parts of Toronto's shoreline. Located just west of Rees Street on the south side of Queens Quay, the 480 square-metre wavedeck is both a piece of art and a functional gathering space. The stairs act as an informal amphitheatre and the varying heights of the deck allow for different vantage points and ultimately different experiences with the lake.
At Rees, the wavedeck dips gracefully towards the water allowing the public to get so close to the water they can almost touch it. Boating clubs in the slip also benefit from the new wavedeck which offers an amphitheatre-like space for outdoor education. A portion of the toe rail at the centre of the deck is removable to accommodate boarding of small boats from the wavedeck. www.waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/portal/waterfront/Home/waterf...
The group signed a five-year lease - aptly on St. Patrick’s Day! There will be about 8,000-square-feet of space across three floors to use for cultural events in the former Administrative Building beside the silos. Have you been to Ireland Park? It has a number of fascinating “famine sculptures” - a commentary on the nature of the famine that so many Irish immigrants fled in 1847.
The revitalization of Toronto's waterfront is moving at fast and furious speed.
New public redevelopment projects are now growing out from multiple sites along the shores of Lake Ontario, joining more recently revitalized spaces like Queens Quay, Sherbourne Common and Ontario Place as future hubs of urban recreation.
And there's still more to come.
This week, new details were released about what's being called Bathurst Quay, a neighbourhood encompassing the huge Canada Malting silos, Ireland Park and Eireann Quay – which, right now, is pretty much just being used as a cab stand for Billy Bishop Airport. 241
I hardly leave my neighbourhood, so am enjoying snapping photos of these tall buildings in downtown Toronto.
The Tall Ships Belfast 2015, taken after the fireworks display.
Tall Ships 2015 took place from Thursday 2 July to Sunday 5 July in Belfast's Titanic Quarter and Pollock Dock area. Forty-six magnificent vessels attracted 500,000 visitors, who enjoyed the sights and sounds of this unforgettable spectacular.
Tens of thousands of people watched the Tall Ships sail out of Belfast Lough on their last day, to the race starting point, just off Portrush.
Ships from as far afield as Brazil and Ecuador are now sailing across the North Sea to Ålesund in Norway.