The harbor’s ordinary workers keep the postcard scene functioning.

The view exists because people are up early maintaining it. Nets, fuel, ice, repairs and moorings appear on no postcard, though the whole picture depends on all of it continuing. Places that are beautiful to look at are usually working places first, and the working part is what comes under threat once the looking becomes the main business. Scenery is a by-product of somebody’s ordinary week.

In a place you visit for its beauty, spend money where the local work is rather than only where the view is. Noticing who was there before you arrived changes what the visit is.