365 Project - week 18

[curiouswombat]

Not all the pics are from the small island this week - I've been off-island to bring D-d home from York for the summer.

So - under the cut are a couple of pics of the realities of living on an island, York Minster, and the girl herself -



Monday - after a discussion about fuchsias last weekend I took this picture from the car whilst in a queue of traffic along Governor's Road on Monday - the red is a fuchsia - and yes, it is about 12 - 15' high!



Tuesday - another road with plants - this time of year there is a lot of valerian growing wild in the hedgrows - as you can see not only on the nearside of the road, but on the otherside as well, there is deep pink as far as you can see -



Actually, up near my mother's house, there is a darker version as well.

Wednesday - this is the reality of living on an island - sitting on the car loading area waiting to get on the boat at 7.45am. The big black hole at the back of the Ben my Chree is where we drive in - as you can see the upper deck has containers and trailers on.



I got off the boat in England at 12.30pm - and that is how we start most of our journeys.

Thursday - well, D-d got her results and we went out to celebrate at This Thai Restaurant - what else could the picture of the day be than the girl herself?



Probably not the best picture - I think she may have had her mouth full of starter!

Friday - a picture of York. I am really proud of this one - it is a 'postcard' view - which I took from the men's department of M&S!



Saturday - back to the realities of life on an island - the car deck of the Ben, as we wait to get off.



And for today - it is the island-wide churches flower festival. I have taken a lot of pictures of our church, which is participating this year - this is probably my favourite as a representative of the whole -



As you can see, we don't have traditional church windows - so we have to do it another way!

The theme is the hymn 'All things bright and beautiful,' and this represents 'Sunset'. All over there are also 'all creatures great and small' dotted around - the birds in this picture were my contribution...

I also did the leaflets, and the signs to explain what each area represents - as actually arranging flowers is not one of my skills at all!



Tomorrow is Tynwald Day - I think I will mainly have it as a day of rest, but I will probably upload some more of the flower festival pictures.

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ah - it looks, having a quick look at Wiki, as if your ferries are a bit smaller and a very different configuration -

So - the MV Andrew J. Barberi and the MV Samuel I. Newhouse, known as the “Barberi class”, built 1981 and 1982 respectively. Each boat carries 6,000 passengers and no cars. The boats are 310 feet (94 m) long, 69 feet, 10 inches (21.3 m) wide, with a draft of 13 feet, 6 inches (4.1 m), weight of 3,335 gross tons, service speed of 16 knots (30 km/h), and engines of 7,000 horsepower (5.2 MW).

And for the Ben -
Tonnage: 12,747 GT
Length: 125.2 metres
Beam: 23.4 metres
Draught: 5.8 metres
Propulsion: Two x MAK 9L32
Speed: 19.5 knots
Capacity: Passenger and crew: 636
Cars: 275

Both are important life-lines I would reckon - even if you can now use a bridge - I'd guess things would snarl up without the ferries.

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

To my surprise, the Staten Island ferries no longer take cars, motorcycles or trucks. When I was a kid, even a young adult they still did. I guess you now have to go to Brooklyn from Manhattan and take the Verrazano Bridge, which was opened in 1964.