Monday, September 7, 2015

It Don't Fit Any Where Else!!!!!

A whole lot of pictures that just had to be in our blog.
 
The zone leaders have a key to our apartment so while we were out they snuck in and taped hearts with messages from the missionaries on the frame of the map in our apartment.

The Screw Dock in Barbados was built between 1887 and 1893 with Victorian engineering. This dock is also known as the Dry Dock or the Blackwood Dock or Blackman’s Screw Lifting Dock.
The Bridgetown Dry Dock was built in 1887, while the actual Screw Lifting Dock started construction in 1889 and was completed in 1893.
 
It had a lifting capacity of 1,200 tons, measuring 240ft in length with a 46ft beam and a 13ft shaft. It also operated on steam, but later converted to electricity. It could handle vessels drawing not more than 14 ft of water.
 
Ships came into the Bridgetown Careenage and were lifted out of the water for repairs and cleaning in the dock. The boats were turned on their sides, so the bottoms could be scraped, caulked and painted. The dock was also used by the British Navy for boat repairs during World War II.

As one of the finest dry docks with excellent workmanship, this port was very busy and used by several steamships trading between the United States and Brazil. 
The Bridgetown Screw Dock is the only dry dock of its kind known to exist in the world.
 
The screw dock in Bridgetown, Barbados.


And it's off to the races at the Garrison in Bridgetown.

Flamboyant tree in bloom.

Speaks for it's self.

Outside the window.  Sure was glad it was outside.  It aint no small bug.

Well worn shoe.  This one belongs to Elder Wilson from Wisconsin, USA.  Do you think he has walked a few miles?


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