I was dorking around in Google Earth and happened to notice that the algorithms they use create some intriguing and spooky images in marinas. I zoomed in our old boat, the Haida 26, still there in Google Earth when it was in the Port of Edmonds last summer. In the quest to make the world look more three dimensional on your screen, Google Earth apparently made a decision to give boats sails even when they are at the dock, and these sails should be ghostly, grey and loose - are the ships abandoned or being stolen by zombie pirates? Upper parts of masts hover above boats, sometimes even over motor boats. Some boats are distorted and some are broken or missing sections. Some are made of fainter pixels that make them look partially or totally submerged.
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| our previous boat Tatsao is directly in front of the big boat that is the location of "Just Frogs Toads Too". (I had no idea about Just Frogs either until now.) from this view, it looks like our boat was spared invasion by ghost pirates since it is not flying sails, but it is missing its mast and the stern is partially severed, and it is sinking stern first into the water. I am glad the pirates didn't take it - maybe it will not be used for evil, and perhaps it will sink in time to escape the smoke and flames coming from the stern of the boat to the left of it, so maybe we can fix it up again later. |
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