Eyes on the Skies

This afternoon I drove to the North Portland bluff to catch a glimpse of two ships through my binoculars.  The two odd ships were docked amid Swan Island's cranes - the gray hulls of the MX Pacific Collector (I met a crew member on the recent United Airlines flight from Houston to PDX) and the SS Pacific Tracker.  I could see the golf-ball-like structures looming over their decks.  Portland's Swan Island has become the ships' base.