Boats in Venice

Orion loves large vehicles of all types. His love of "gucks", as those of you with small boys in your life may know, is completely and strongly self-motivated--a fact that I did not believe was possible to this extant before having my own son.
One wonders to what extant trucks and the like fascinate Venetian toddlers, as there is no way to drive any cars or trucks through the streets of Venice. Instead, Venice has the equivalent in boats, that must travel through the canals to assist and transport the citizens of the Serenissima. (This post is mostly for Orion, for now, although Italo Calvino is not far from my mind.)

Instead of fire trucks, you have fire boats (luckily still red):Instead of taxis with wheels, water taxis:
Here's the police station, with blue police boats:
This was far away, but there is a barge with a cement truck and another construction truck traveling through the Giudecca canal (leaving no doubt as to how high construction costs are in Venice):
Here is a shipyard, with gondolas on the mend:
An ambulance:
A water bus, or vaporetto:
And, my favorite, the produce boat, with particularly good fruits and veggies:


This boat has always been there during my visits, near Campo Santa Margarita and a wonderful gelateria (try Cherry and Tiramisu mousse--always order two flavors--at least--at a time).