This fueling dock where barges are brought nearly every day by tugboats is the way gasoline and home heating oil and diesel arrive on Long Island. It is a huge company that deals in fuel. If you look carefully there is a huge barge tied up to the dock and on the far side facing to the left is a tugboat which brought the barge into Hempstead Harbor. But I don't know where the barges come from. As the fuel is unloaded, there are large pipes which run under the road to a huge tank farm across the street, where the fuels are stored, and then tanker trucks fill up and take the fuel to gasoline stations. This was the perfect time for this shot, like the peaking turbines, because there was still some light in the sky which gives us a blue background instead of black. I love the reflections of the lights on the water which is one reason I took this photograph. Please click on the image to see in in more detail and you can begin to see the barge and tugboat better.
3 comments:
Great shot. I am pondering the 3 bright lights evenly spaced that are high off the barge like lamp posts. It reminds me of barges coming into New Haven but there you see all of the huge storage tanks so it loses the appeal. This is a lovely site.
Joan
I think the three bright lights from left to right on the barge are to illuminate the whole deck of the barge, where crew have to deal with docking lines for the barge and hoses and valves and so on, to fuel and defuel the barge. All kinds of stuff sticking up on the deck - things that a worker could easily trip over and get injured, or worse, go overboard. Just my guess.
Thanks for the explanation.
Joan
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