Waterscraper

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We were in an industrial port again in Ghana.  One night I just noticed that there was this ENORMOUS structure off the back of the Explorer, and I wondered what it was.  My first thought was that it was a building.  It looked pretty squarish and like it was all wrapped in white stuff, and it was just too huge to be a boat.  I got closer and noticed a paved strip going to the bottom of it.  Parking garage?  No, then I realized it WAS a boat, and it was just an insanely enormous boat.  Have you ever looked at an industrial port and seen those enormous containers with MAERSK written on the side?  Trucks would load those things on, drive right up the paved gangway onto the ship, drop them off, and then come out of ANOTHER ROAD inside the ship going the opposite direction.  It must have been like nine decks high and as wide at the top as it was at the bottom, which is pretty crazy.  I could only imagine what the hell the inside of that thing looked like.  The librarian was watching it with me.  He told me that they would drive cars off in lines and have them sit there right near the Explorer, probably for inspection, and then they would drive away.  Sometimes only one car would drive and it would tow the others away.  Sometimes the MAERSK things would back up onto the ship which was craaaazy, but less crazy when I found out they could rotate the position of the driver’s seat.

 

It was gone the next time I looked for it.