Across the harbour

Pule' Carmel

Jan 25th 2010, 01:01

I lived, I swam, I was educated at the Dockyard school, I boated in that bay and the others next to it, for 70 years almost. In the past everybody looked at it, as an ugly sight full of " the Cottonera South!!" It is now that people are appreciating the Beauty that Cottonera beholds, why does it take so long for people to sway from the city life to the pleasantness of natural tranquility that I enjoyed all my life, but others criticised me for it?

Early in the morning I would wake up to see the wavemotion set up by the steam ferry boat on the surface of a still sea, which sometimes shimmered with twinkling silver coins as the breeze of the day broke through. Later when my daughter Sarah was born and saw these spectacular wave motions around the boats, she once excalimed, " Dad, they look just like a Christmas tree, and so it was.

The heavy light intensity in the skyline background could also be from the film facility operations, but the closer are comining from the area where I live at Progress Str and Sta Liberata, possibly De La Salle certainly not Fortini.

Z. Zammit

Jan 24th 2010, 00:39

Anne, was just thinking the same thing!

Can't wait to move back to Malta! had to move away to appreciate the beauty of it all

Anne Armstrong

Jan 23rd 2010, 18:59

Just beautiful. Makes me want to jump onto the next plane and come home. Thank you. Great photograph.

E Aquilina

Jan 23rd 2010, 17:15

One of the numerous excellent shots taken by Leslie Vella of the Maltese islands.. prosit!

J Cutajar

Jan 23rd 2010, 17:04

Very nice photo!!! Unfortunately the floodlights of the Fortini sports area (at least I think so)attract much of the attention towards them.

Roderick Mizzi

Jan 23rd 2010, 16:57

@Tony Abela

I think those are the lights of the De-La-Salle's Football Ground.

EPMuscat

Jan 23rd 2010, 16:52

we should employ this chap as a photographer with MTA. hehe

GiovDEMartino

Jan 23rd 2010, 15:25

Ta' l-istampi!

tony abela

Jan 23rd 2010, 14:54

Very nice photo! But it is a clear evidence of Light pollution. I wonder what the string of bright floodlights on the left centre side of the photo are used for.

Keith Goodlip

Jan 23rd 2010, 14:40

Beautiful