Port Hope Shipyard

Port Hope is the local "garage" for enormous boats. They've got a magnificent railway and turntable. I've seen all sorts hauled up into dry dock. There's been a BC Ferry in for paint and refit the past couple of months, and just today it was bobbing about on the water on the Hope dock. When it first appeared in the yard I honestly thought it was in for dismantle! Looks marvelous today. Real work horses, those ferries.

This Coast Guard boat was just off the turntable last weekend. Today it's enshrouded in three levels of scaffolding and well taped for painting. Probably a bit of a refit in the cards too?

Mum and I walk past Port Hope at least once a week. It's good. We start by going through the hedges on Waterfront, cut down to the Goose, then across the Selkirk Trestle, and along the Galloping Goose, past the shipyards on Harbour Road, under the rail bridge, across OPI's terrace, and onto the pebble beach on the Inner Harbour. There we sit and work our way through a flask of tea and a tray of cakes watching the boats and planes go by.

It's good. All Zen and Buddha ... all Mother and Daughter.