Sharp Shooters, Visit to Bremerton: Pt 1: Views from Ferry
Sharp Shooters was back together for another photography adventure. This time, we traveled by ferry to a festival in Bremerton.
Beautiful views are a photographer's dream! You can't get much prettier then the views of Seattle and the Puget sound from the ferry. I've lost count of how many times I have rode the ferry. But still...it has not and will not lose it's charm. I love the ferry!
Most boats are naturally cheerful: Ferries, steam boats decorated with colorful flags, tugboats, sailboats with white sails and blue hulls- all very merry boats. But not all vessels of the sea are cute and whimsical. Some are spooky!...such as ghost ships!
The most famous ghost ship of all time is The Mary Celeste. On December 5th, 1872, the Mary Celeste was discovered bobbing listlessly in a desolated bit of the Atlantic sea. The Merchant Brigantine the Del Gatia found the ship. Expecting to see the large ship full of wide eyed, adventure seeking sailors, they instead found the ship completely abandoned. The ship's life boats were missing, but provisions were fully stocked and personnel items were undisturbed. It was if the inhabitants suddenly vanished into the thin sea air. The only indication of anything out of the ordinary was that the lifeboat was missing.
There are many theories about what happened to the (most likely) ill -fated passengers of the Mary Celeste: mutiny, piracy, crude alcohol explosion, sea monster, conspiracy, alien abduction or (less exiting) natural disaster.
Here is what I think happened. The ship was full of merry sailors frolicking aboard the deck of the ship. It was a sunny day with not much movement in the sea, so all the crew was lazy, just enjoying the day. They watched the birds and dolphins. They stared wistfully at the endless horizons. On one side of the ship, a whale breached so almost the entire crew went to that side of the ship to view the magnificent creature. Just as this happened, the ship passed into a time-slip, but only the half of the ship that the whale was on. In that moment, all of the crew looking at the whale vanished in a second into the parallel universe. The only crew members left were the people uninterested in the whale- and they were suddenly, terrifyingly alone! The people who disappeared were the friends of the sailors who were left behind. The men who were left behind had no way of knowing what happened to their friends, but they couldn't just leave it be. They needed to search for the crew. So, they boarded the lifeboat to search for their friend. The whale, who had swam under the ship to the other side moments before the time slip, breached right in front of the lifeboat. But it was not a whale at all! It was a sea monster who swallowed the remaining crew. The crew that went into the time slip had an easier time of it. The time slip shot them into the future. In the future, an island had been built only feet away from where the boat had been. So the crew swam to the island and built a new, futuristic life.