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July 1, 2005
...and a star to steer her by...
I was sitting in a meeting the other day when there was a tremendous "boom" and the building shook. We're on the waterfront, and there are train tracks immediately adjacent to the building on the water side - so my first thought was that a train had hit something.
Looking out the window to the water I realized I was wrong.
It wasn't a train.
It was a canon.
There's a Tall Ship expo in Tacoma this weekend, and some of the participants were sailing down the sound en-route to their final moorings.
Apparently some of them harbored overnight in Hidden Cove. The self-same Hidden Cove that the road we live off of was named for.
I don't know where my fascination with tall ships comes from - I guess it's their majesty, and the hubris they represent. It always amazes me that man, in an age without GPS, dared brave the open seas. And it further amazes me that even today, with all the advances made, the sea will still swallow careless, or unlucky, sailors - leaving only memories of them carried by friends and family.
And I think, somewhere deep inside, I want to believe that there are still places on this earth where "there be monsters."
Posted by dberger at July 1, 2005 10:43 AM
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