Today on Monday Mysteries we take a look at another oddity we see from our vacation apartment:  it’s a ship that only appears at night.

Now it’s not a ghost ship like those ghost cars I wrote about before. Nope, it’s much more substantial. It looks like a giant cruise ship that appears only in the evening whenever the weather is clear enough to see North Vancouver:

A cruise ship in North Vancouver?

But … how could that really be a cruise ship over there? It would have to be a huge one, even bigger than that container ships that go back and forth to the Vancouver Harbour.

Night after night, however, the cruise ship appears. Here’s another look:

A cruise ship in North Vancouver?

Of course, during the day, when the clouds and fog lift high enough to show what the buildings look like on that side of the Burrard Inlet, it does somewhat clearer what is going on. You see, by day the “cruise ship” appears to be merely a cluster of pink buildings. You actually saw them yourself a while back, as they were right under the rainbow in a previous post. Here’s another look at that area in the daylight, minus the rainbow, however:

North Vancouver seen from our apartment

“Cruise Ship” (aka the pink buildings) seen by day

OK, so it’s not a real cruise ship. The only real mystery here is, I guess, the intent of the architect — did he or she design the buildings to resemble a cruise ship? During the day, the effect isn’t that obvious. But was the effect intended only to appear at night?

I have no idea what those buildings are, and therefore no way to look up who the architect was.  Until I make it over to that side of the water on this trip, those questions will just have to remain  an unanswered mystery on this Monday.

But hope you enjoy the nighttime illusion nonetheless.