HongKong/Vancouver

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. — T. S. Eliot

Sunday, May 22, 2022

The monsters are back



Nothing to cerebrate, just arrival of monster ships, like Queen of Sheba, after three years of empty streets of Vancouver. The cruise ships are back. Before the pandemic, every year, towards the end of Spring, they sail back to Vancouver like migrating steel monsters responding to some secret calling. They will come and go all summer, pouring as many as 8000 wannabes into downtown Vancouver a day, three of them docked at Canada Place and two more over at Ballantyne Pier. They are massive, imposing, disruptive, controversial. They are the cruise ships. Tourism industry love them. Environmentalists hate them.

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