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The Mukilteo / Clinton Ferry

Posted by James Turnbull, Saturday, 4th June 2005

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The Mukilteo / Clinton Ferry in Seattle can be seen here offloading cars after docking in Mukilteo Terminal. If you look a little to the north you can see the same boat again, about to crash into its future self ;-)

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Thanks: Lostperception

9 Responses to 'The Mukilteo / Clinton Ferry'

  1. 1. ulrich says:

    haha nice! :D
    if you look to the right, there is another serious bridge aligment problem!

  2. 2. XF says:

    …and this seems to be Placemark: a *huge* carrier / Google Earth.

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    3. Alex says:

    LOL! Brilliant. I should read this site more often ;-D

  4. 4. Jeremy says:

    Thats probably the USS Lincoln. She is normally home ported there, when she’s not over in Bremerton getting work done.

  5. 5. Tim says:

    Look south on the coast, there’s a pretty long train.

  6. 6. XF says:

    And what is Placemark: thing on the shore / Google Earth a little more south? Some kind of sunk ship or what?

  7. 7. Jeremy says:

    It’s more of a beached ship. I went fishing in those waters a few years back and remember just seeing the ship there. Didn’t get to close to it, didn’t want to run into something, but yeah, a beached ship.

  8. 8. noknok says:

    “If you look a little to the north you can see the same boat again, about to crash into its future self ”

    Two identical ferries serve this route simultaneously, so the duplicate could be the other ferry–although perhaps not in the same timeframe–it IS pretty close. But I do remember one time I crossed on that ferry I was concerned we were going to ram our counterpart. It exited the dock only a couple minutes of before we pulled in.

    If you go North and West you will see the other dock, including the wake of a ferry that has just left.

  9. 9. Mark says:

    Another cool carrier can be found in San Diego, Placemark: here, / Google Earth and a hospital ship and a bunch of destroyers and cruisers a bit to the southeast, Placemark: here. / Google Earth

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