Sunday Morning Trip on Bus 18 to Harington Point and Back                                            

24 August 2025 - On Sunday morning I took the early 18 bus to Harington Point near the end of the Peninsula.  The trip out there takes an hour.  As the buses run infrequently on the weekend and go all the way to Harington Point very infrequently, I got off where the Monarch cruises leave from, walked around the area for a few minutes, and then caught the bus as it headed on the return trip to the city.  There was an amazing quiet as I looked out across the flat water toward the mouth of the Harbour.  A slightly rough edge to the line of the horizon marked the open sea.  I walked around for a few minutes until the bus showed up.  Stopping at Portobello for a while, I walked around the mudflat where the low tide had left exposed many clumps of Neptune's necklace (Hormosira banksii) seaweed as well as rocks graffitied by distinctive white worm tubes.  Finally, I caught another 18 bus back to the city.
While waiting for the bus, I walked over at saw the Eibe Oldendorff  (general cargo ship, 180m long, built in 2015, flag Madiera) at berth.  The bus left around 8:38.  I took most of my photos through the window of the moving bus, and in a few of the images one can see reflections off the glass.
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