The Maritime Museum

This was one of the coolest places I went on the vacation.  It was a bunch of boats that have been renovated into a museum.  There was a ferry, and old yacht, HMS Suprise, and The Star of India.  The stories we heard were really interesting.

While we were on the ferry, one of the workers, Bob, talked to us about the engine of the ferry.  It was really cool because he turned the engine on and showed us the pistons moving.  Even though they were only going at 6 rpm, it was still pretty fast.  Bob said at normal speeds it went at 120 rpm's.  We walked around the ship that was used for Master and Commander.  I read an interesting fact about that ship.  In the movie when someone was steering the ship on deck, there was a professional below deck actually steering and sailing the ship.  The Star of India had an interesting story.  At first it was a cargo ship and then after a while it became an immigrant  boat.  It would carry people from England to New Zealand.  The trip usually took between 4-5 months.  Single women had a 5'9" x 18 inches space for living and men had just over 6'0" x 20" on the 2nd level.  Only 1st class people could go up on deck and eat meat.  We also went into a Russian Cold War sub.  It was really small inside.  They would put a bed wherever there was room.  We were only on the 1st level and there wer 2 other levels below.  I don't think I could ever be on a sub.

Since there was a pool at the house, we did a lot of swimming.  We had a lot of fun doing shamu moves and jumping in trying to catch a football, trying to catch two fish at the same time, or trying to get on the skateboard before we fell in the water.