Following the riverwalk into the fog, with a few ghost ships for company.
The Look Back 2013–2019: November 2017
First published November 7, 2017. Revisited with a new reflection.
We’re going back to November 2017, to a morning when I could barely see my beautiful historic downtown Savannah. Fog had settled over the city, and I headed out for my usual walk along the Riverfront’s Riverwalk.
Dreary? Yes. Visibility? Well, you can see what I was working with. There were plenty of signs pointing me toward Waving Girl Dock. The Waving Girl herself? Well… Nope! I hadn’t seen her that morning!
Straight ahead, somewhere in the fog
Follow that row of lampposts as far as you can. Oddly, not a one was lit! Erie, I say!
A little farther along, even the person ahead begins to disappear from view.
I know this riverwalk, but that morning I couldn’t see enough of it to feel quite so sure.
What I notice now
Looking back at this photograph, I have an active imagination. Give me a disappearing waterfront and a few boats barely visible at their docks, and I’m already seeing ghost ships.
Savannah’s haunted waterfront? That morning, I could certainly imagine it. In fact, one of my original captions asked, “Ghost ship docking?” Apparently, I was suspicious of those boats back then, too!
A moment from the original – Beauty of a foggy morning
Back in 2017 I wrote:
“Fog had blanketed the city late the night before, and it seemed, like a dream world outside.”
I’m glad I took that walk. Looking at these photographs now, I can follow the tracks onto River Street and then turn toward the boats. Some are easy enough to make out. That faint shape beside the dock takes a little more looking. Oops, better watch your step! Many a drunken visitor has fallen on the ballast stones paving the street.
In the original post, I remembered buildings and trees appearing as I got closer, and a seagull calling as it flew in and out of view. The river was almost hidden, but there was still plenty to stop and photograph.
Read the original “The Daily Post: Faint” — November 7, 2017 →
The Conversation Continues
Come walk a little farther.
You may have a familiar place that looks completely different when the weather changes. Have you ever gone out in the fog and found yourself stopping to photograph something you normally walk right past?
I’m still looking for the Waving Girl. Those signs seem very confident that this is the right direction.
📍 Savannah Riverwalk, Savannah River, Savannah, Georgia
Collection
The Look Back, Riverwalks, The Weather
Captured with
iPhone 6s Plus
Published by
Robert Snap Spot
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