I found this picture on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day site. It depicts an old ship run aground in southern Greece. If you look very closely near the on the beach near the ship, you can see a faint figure. Perhaps it is the captain’s ghost gazing sadly at his ship. Now if I just stopped right there, this would have the makings of a wonderful Halloween sea story. But alas, the figure you see is not the captain’s ghost, but the photographer himself still very much in the flesh. Click on the link above for all the technical setails of what you see in this photo. Ghost or no ghost, it still a cool picture. And those racing lines of light you see in the sky are called star trails.
Now if you would like a real ghostly sea tale with a little good, clean romance as well, there is always this classic:
(Having issues with work computer her, 4th time trying to post a comment…grrr)
At what point does our junk become our beauty? I have a similar picture I took of a wrecked fish-processing ship off of Tinian in the Marianas Islands (without the stars lol). Within a a week of the grounding, all the tuna in the holds started to rot and the toxic fumes blew across the island killing wildlife and forcing people to evacuate. Now, it’s just another picturesque spot near the harbor.
I used to watch the Ghost and Mrs. Muir on TV when I was a kid but never did see the movie it was based on. Charles Nelson Reilly was in it, though thankfully not as the Ghost LOL!
By: christopher on October 29, 2010
at 10:41 pm
Woohoo, got the comment thru!
By: christopher on October 29, 2010
at 10:41 pm
Thanks for commenting Christopher. Rotting tuna- yuk- I can just imagine the stench!
As for the movie version of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir- I use to watch the series as well; the movies is much better, although I don’t remember Charles Nelson Reilly in it. The actor who played the ghost was Rex Harrison I believe- he fit the part very well.
By: Karinann on October 30, 2010
at 8:18 am