Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: port

While looking for a coffeehouse someone had told us about (which we never found) my friend and I found this lighthouse. The sun was going down, so it gave me the chance to get a few shots of the lighthouse in the setting sun. The exposure on these shots was iffy since I didn't have a working light meter, but when I took this one, which was the darkest, and played with the saturation and contrast in Gimp, I was able to get this.

I didn't see a train the whole time I was in Patras this time, although I saw a few the last time. I couldn't tell if the railway was abandoned this time, shut down for maintenance (the mainline from Athens was indeed being rebuilt and electrified), or what. I'm assuming that traffic had been cut back to allow the upgrade to go ahead, although that seems like a bad decision to me, even if the upgrade is much needed. Does anybody know? This crossing is actually at the entrance to the ferry port.

Swansea has always been a port city, of course, but today most of the traffic is in small boats. I'm pretty sure this is some kind of tug or ex-tug, although someone who knows ships or boats better could probably give more information. I do note that this one doesn't have any tires on it for padding so......