Tricoleur
Back in January, I wrote about this boat rusting away on a tidal flat in the Oakland estuary, but I didn’t have a camera capable of doing it justice at the time. I finally got a chance to take some better pictures yesterday (those are the lights of the Coliseum in the background):
A great bike mechanic once told me he had never seen a bike frame destroyed by rust. That might not be true for boats…
April 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pmIt is amazing that the birds and/or ducks near the boat look, despite their environment, all right. In any event they seem to know not to sit on that horribly jagged edge.
There is something about rust: the threat of tetanus comes to mind, but the threat I feel just seeing it, long predates my knowledge of its connection to tetanus. You and your camera also caught the color very well. I thought an estuary is a life-giving and sustaining place of nature.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:16 pmruth: “they seem to know not to sit on that horribly jagged edge.” Don’t be so sure—this is what the boat looked like not 5 minutes before the photo above was taken:
I don’t know what caused them to suddenly flee the scene. Maybe they’re just camera-shy.
wordnerd: That’s probably even more true now that aluminum frames seem to be the norm. Try leaving a steel bike frame in San Francisco bay for a few years, then show it to your great bike mechanic and ask him if he’s still never seen a bike frame destroyed by rust.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:32 pm