Went for my favourite evening stroll the other evening. Down through our local park, along the connector path besids the stream and in to West Coast Park, ending up on the water front just as the sun was beginning to set. Beautiful, as always. The container terminal was busy with a Maersk container ship busy unloading (pictures below - I am prepared to admit that an Iphone is not the ideal camera for twilight shots, maybe one day I will try my hand at photography again). Can you believe that they can cram 15,000 TEUs on the biggest container ships (TEU = Twenty ft Equivalent Unit). I can't. Admittedly the container ship in the picture is not Emma Maersk or one of her 400m whopper sister ships. According to the Maersk timetable it must be Maersk Jorong, a puny rubber dinghy a mere 220 m long with a TEU capacity of 2824 (LOL everyone). Amazing what doubling the length does for capacity.
Anyway, it is fantastic to be able to walk down to the harbour area. On this particular occasion there was a large RoRo vessel setting sail, another one steaming away in the distance, Maersk Jorong busy load/unloading, lots of oil rigs under construction lit up and looking like Christmas decorations, and Jurong Island lit up in the background, with flares flaming up every now and then. All this is available every evening every day of the year for those prepared to go for a 20 min stroll. Not bad!
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