A time lapse video made by setting a camera to take photos at six second intervals during a trip outbound on the Houston Ship Channel. I used Quicktime to assemble over 2000 individual photos into a 3 minute movie representing an actual time of over 3 1/2 hours. The ship was only moving at 5-6 knots for the first half of the trip and up to 10 knots in the open areas away from the docks. The journey begins just below the Port of Houston turning basin at the end of the channel and continues down to Morgan’s Point at the head of Galveston Bay. We still had 32 miles to go to get out to the pilot station in the Gulf of Mexico at that point. The ship is a Panamax tanker 600 feet long by 106 feet wide.
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looks like Rockstar’s newest installment: Grand Theft Boat-Galveston Bay
It looks like a skilled pilot.
No deck lamps. Airports nearby?
Wow. On a big screen with the lights turned off, it’s surreal.
Thanks for this!
It’s a wonder anyone in the Houston area has any lungs left. What crappy air.
#4 Almost any camera can produce images like these (minus the timelapse capability). Its done by lengthening the exposure, probably even over a second.
Very cool Uncle Dave.
Wow, what a ride. What’s the speed limit on that
channel? Looks dangerous with no running lights
and apparently too dark to see where you are going sometimes. That pilot was very skilled.
Nice work Uncle Dave!
Excellent! Thanks.
Pretty cool video! I’m going to favorite it on YouTube.
Is that the San Jacinto Monument on the right at 2:09?
#6: We like to say that it “smells like money” At least we produce something tangible in this town. Air quality is much improved, though.
#13: Yes, that’s San Jacinto. Site of the final battle against Santa Ana establishing Texas independence.
The Houston ship channel continues as a dredged channel through Galveston Bay for quite some distance before reaching the Gulf. The port of Houston is in the top 2 or 3 in the nation, even though it’s far inland. The channel was dug after the devastating 1900 hurricane wiped out Galveston, which had been the big city in the region until then.
What in the hell was that in the sky at 0:14 (upper left side)? A low flying plane? It looked like a flying triangle.
The starting point is labeled as “Buffalo Bayou turning basin” on Google maps if anyone wants to check it out there.
That video was breath taking. I know MY heart rate increased in the spots that there was no light from the shore. That’s quite an effect.
Thank you this was just awesome. The people in Houston have a “can do” attitude. Love it there.
Loved every time-lapsed second of it.
Thanks Uncle Davey.
Awesome video.
Also a good illustration of what a petroleum soaked industrial hellhole Houston is. You would never geuss that the city sits on the same body of water as the beaches of western Florida.