Postcards from the Macao Maritime Museum
An Amazing Image from the Past, Showing, L-to-R, a Tanker, a Junk, a Power Trawler, and Another Junk
This and most of the other images on this page are Postcards from the Macao Maritime Museum
Compare the "Junco a Veza" (left) and "Junco a Vela" (right) photos below.
(The fairly good color of these photos places them in the 1950's - 1960's at the earliest.)
| "Junco a Veza" | "Junco a Vela" |
 Note the stays and "jib" - a form of "knockabout" design. |
 Less Westernized than Junco a Veza, the masts are still stayed. |
 Junco a Veza - bow view |
 Junco a Vela - general view |
 Junco a Veza - stern view |
 The Type of Motor Trawler Which has Replaced the Sailing Junk |
This Highly Altered Image Shows the Museum's "Serene Junk" Sailing in the Macao Harbor
The Structure at Left is the Facade of a Ruined Catholic Church
Another View of the Museum's Junk Sailing in the Harbor of Macao
The Structure at Left is a Pleasure Dome of Some Sort Which is Still Under Construction
It's Not Known if the Juxtaposition of Shore Structures in these 2 views is a Deliberate Editorial Comment
Postcards From Elsewhere
Junk Community at Aberdeen, Hong Kong Island
I am told that many of the Junk-dwellers are Vietnamese "Boat People".
Fire is, as you can imagine, a major hazard - along with "water quality".
I might mention, in passing, that I think it's a very good idea to limit your intake of seafood in HK.
HK dumps 190,000 cubic meters of raw sewage daily - then there's Guangdong (Canton) upstream.
Festival of Tin Hua at Po Toi Island
Tin Hua was a Goddess-Protectoress of Fisherman
She was also known as A-Ma (from which "Macao" was somehow generated)