David made a trip to the GPS Store to buy “a few things”. He ordered some electronics since there were none in stock. The salesman drove him from the store back to the marina, people are so nice here! While he was gone I gave Ellie a bath, then cleaned the shower, it needed it! We had an uneventful trip to our marina for this night. David docked the boat perfectly and into a tight spot even. Dock crews have a hard time believing we’ve only been driving the boat for a month. We met some people on the dock, got invited to a little get together on their back deck. I know I keep saying that we keep meeting nice people but we do. We had fresh shrimp, blue yumbos, as they called them in Rocky Point so many years ago. Gorgeous and smelled like the ocean. We turned them into Shrimp Scampi for dinner and put the rest of them in vacuum packed bags into the freezer. I think we will be staying here another day, get some electronics stuff installed and maybe even rest for awhile. Thanks for stopping by❤️
Tour of the Battleship Wisconsin
We toured the Battleship Wisconsin today. We spent 5hours crawling around the ship and we both were in awe. There’s too much to write about, so today you can just look at the pictures. Here goes: A Navy ship that had one gun manned by a crew of Marines. This was the Marine emblem drawn by one of the Marine gunners when he was 19. When he turned 85, the Navy brought him out so that he could climb up on scaffolding in 100 degrees heat. It took him 4 days to complete the emblem being restored. He was in heaven that the Navy had honored him with the task. This is gunpowder that is compressed into pellets, there are 256 pellets in one bag, it takes 6 bags to fire one gun one time. Highest point on the ship. It’s basically the pilot house. The firing of Tomahawk missiles. They fly 550 mph just above the ground, flying under the radar. Read the plaque, it’s interesting. These are 5” barrel guns, the smallest guns on the ship. Read this one, it’s part of the bigger story really inter
Great blog. I love that people are so friendly.
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