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Photo: Phoebe Chard

Photo: Phoebe Chard

A drugstore under construction in Winnipeg, where I lived for seven and a half years. It gets quite cold in the winter (sometimes down to about -40c before wind-chill) so the building trade has all sorts of ways of dealing with these conditions, including these insulated tarps. The city is a riot of beige so the quite common site of these orange tarps cheers the place up a little. Photo courtesy of my daughter Phoebe.

Hastings

Hastings

Hastings

Hastings

Hastings

Hastings

Hastings

Hastings

Hastings’ fishing fleet is moored on the beach. There are winches to pull the boats on shore and a light weight infrastructure of huts to store the equipment that is not distributed on the beach. The screen shot below (from Google Maps) Shows the arrangement in plan, with everything arranged either side of the winch lines. At Hastings the boats are protected by a breakwater, but at Dungeness there is no large scale infrastructure to protect the fleet other than the shape of the coastline.

Screen shot from Google Maps

Screen shot from Google Maps