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Thursday, 3 May 2007

Coast in Alex (Part II) - The East port and the Shipyard

Continuing with the coast of Alexandria, here it is the East port:

This port is for fishermen boats, the nets rest close to the street:

Boats are varnished in the pavement:

The children have a little swim close to the mosque:

And in here one of my favourite places in Alex: the shipyard. The sounds of this place:

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Where little fishing boats and big yatchs are constructed:

A massive hull of a yatch is being built:

And in here you can see the scale of it:

Another yatch in a more advanced stage:

And one that seems to be abandoned:

In here a boat collage:

And another little collage, observe the little wooden hut, yes! is as oblique as it looks:

And of course there are people working in the boats, these ones are putting another beam in the hull:

This one polishes the boat:

This one paints:

Close to a boat with a painted Swedish flag (!!??), these two looked...

...at those two pushing their boat out of the water:

The name of the big green and red boat is "Jesus", and has eyes:

And "Jesus" being of that size has to be pulled with other methods:

I love the yellow colour for little boats:

And so they do:

Posted by nono at Thursday, May 03, 2007
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