🚢 Sinking Ships The Staten Island Boat Graveyard -

With water-repellant pants and some tall rubber boots, I return to the marshes off Arthur Kill in Rossville to see more of the rusting marine refuse. I first explored the distant ships in 2018, but was ill-equipped to venture near them. With a cold, partially frozen ground and said uniform, I braved the aged worn glass and metal debris-filled shore to capture a bit more this time. It’s a really cool pace to check out, though it’s easy to see from Powerhouse Gym’s parking lot and easy to access through a path in the historical Sleigh Family Graveyard across the street on Arthur Kill Road.

Farther up Arthur Kill road are scrap yards. I peeped more vessels within their fences, though I was not brave enough to ask the busy men if I could photograph them. But this was a weekday and they’re likely to just be locked up and totally inaccessible after hours. Again, a place to further explore at a later date.

The telephoto lens for this stop… which gives these a bit of a submarine periscope look. For better or worse.

Oh! This is a different place. We wanted to check out Mariner’s Marsh, which has some cool abandoned things to photograph, but unfortunately there was an environmental survey being conducted. So it was closed. But we pulled in this other place, Richmond Terrace “Park,” and wandered down to the shoreline. I saw an abundance of really cool shells I would have collected if I had my shelling supplies. (I have shelling supplies. This amuses me.) So now another reason to come back! Meantime, more rusted boats.