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The gulls were gathering for the bread I threw for them, the ducks were just bobbing along, and the cargo ship in the background is waiting, waiting, waiting. 

There’s a labor dispute between dockworkers and their employers affecting about 29 ports up and down the West Coast, so if my news source is correct, there are a whole bunch of cargo ships (about 30 at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach alone) at anchor out there somewhere.  There are three of them in Bellingham Bay and they’re just far enough apart that I couldn’t get all three in one picture. This one is the Italian cargo ship Usodimare, bound for Bellingham and although it has reached its destination, apparently it can’t be unloaded.    It looks so tiny in the blip, but it’s about the length of a couple football fields and weighs nearly 70,000 tons, which makes it about 30,000 tons lighter and one football field shorter than the Panamanian cargo ship Courage which is anchored down the bay a bit.   The third one is between these two, so all three together are an impressive trio and a most unusual sight.  I’m sure their crews all would like to be on their way so I hope things get ironed out amicably, and soon. 

In the meantime, the Gulls squabbled over the bread, posed for some pictures and the ducks in the middle ignored it all.