The coast of Downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The photographer is on board a vessel in Guanabara Bay looking towards the shore and the ferry terminals. A train ferry is under way bound in on the left and a passenger ferry is bound out on the right. The slipway, hangar and terminal building of the Pan-American Airways System flying boat service to New York is in the centre of the picture with a Sikorsky S-42 on the apron. The top of the mountain in the background is obscured by low cloud.