Random Picture Thread

The random picture taken this late afternoon is an oyster farm worker welding mesh on to his gum boots which he fills with water to not burn through boot, the back ground in the other picture is accommodation quarters with other oyster farm workers relaxing after work.

 

I hate rats, even the four legged kinds.

 

HMCS Haida (1942), the last Tribal Class Destroyer and Canada's "fightingest" ship was towed to dry dock last week for a below the waterline inspection. She served in WWII, Korea and post war with a tally of 8 ships sunk including 2 U-boats.

Haida is one of 27 "Tribals" built. The Tribal Class Destroyers were used by the Royal Navy (16), the Royal Canadian Navy (4+4 post war) and the Royal Australian navy(3).

 

The random picture I took late this evening of the young women did not know I was about to take her picture as the other oyster farmer workers yelled out to look up while I was lining up the picture above, and is when I did the snap shot, she was shy and caught the moment of her natural self.
Its the same as the other picture I took two days before of a women walking past did not expect me to take a snap shot and caught her natural self.

 

Link - - Link - - The links are to websites in Dutch​

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The glass is filled under water and then inverted and pulled up full of water whereby the edge remains below the surface.

Fish apparently are happy to swim into it from below to have a look above the surrounding water surface....

Fish swimming above the surrounding water surface​

 

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/12/ghost-ship-installation-by-visualskin/

 

Aaaaaarghh the Marie Celeste......

 

I took some random pictures of the Shenandoah which I helped rebuild, my dog Flash is where personally cut off the front of boat and completely rebuilt including the underneath front where I double skinned plate and welded to steel that was over a 100 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_(1902)
History

This yacht was built for the US financier Gibson Fahnestock. Her first home port was Newport, and she sailed the Mediterranean Sea until 1905. The schooner has a strong resemblance to German Emperor Wilhelm II's Meteor III which was built in the same shipyard.

In 1912 she was bought by the German Walther von Brüning. Her new home port became Kiel and she was renamed Lasca II. She was confiscated by the British navy during the First World War.

In 1919, the yacht was acquired by Lord John Espen, who christened her Shenandoah. In 1920, the yacht was sold to the Italian prince Spado Veralli, and rechristened Atlantis. The yacht then changed owners numerous times until it was seized by French customs officials in 1960.

In 1972 it was bought by the French industrialist Baron Bich, at which point it became a charter yacht, sailing mainly in the Mediterranean and restoring the name to Shenandoah.

In 1986, she was sold to the Swiss businessman Phillip Bommer, who carried out the necessary restorations at the naval shipyard McMullen & Wing,[3] in Auckland in New Zealand.

http://syshenandoah.com/history-timeline/history-in-the-making/

It is one thing to be able to buy luxury – it is quite another to own a precious piece of history.

Owning Shenandoah is to be the custodian of glorious slice of maritime history. That is why one Italian industrialist has spent a fortune restoring the ship’s former glory and welcoming her to the heart of his family’s life.

Shenandoah was born in one of the 20th Century’s most glamorous eras. She has survived two World Wars. She has welcomed on board the world’s most powerful families, international royalty and her fair share of smugglers and gamblers. She has raced across oceans and circumnavigated the globe many times.

“She has, in a word, lived.”

Her next owner, German aristocrat Landrat Walter von Bruining, was a trifle unfortunate.

He also saw Shenandoah as the ultimate status symbol and, following a small revamp, renamed her Lasca II and berthed her in Kiel in Germany where she once again met up with the Kaiser’s Meteor III. Summers were spent in Cowes on the Isle of Wight – though not many of them.

“…one of the most admired and photographed vessels on the South Coast.” http://syshenandoah.com/image-gallery/underway/

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...n-from-the-shipyard-to-the-sea?ref=nav_search

In the fall of 2008 Mystic Seaport began what was planned to be a three-year restoration of the historic whaleship Charles W. Morgan. The Morgan, a National Historic Landmark vessel and the last remaining vessel of its kind from a fleet that once numbered around twenty seven hundred, has been in Mystic since 1941 and the restoration was aimed at extending its life as a dockside exhibit for another fifty years.

 

How To Train Your Dog To Catch A Lobster

 

Flash

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIam5OGXTQ8

 

Very good, Hoyt! I especially like the beatboxing squirrel/chipmunk!

 

Thanks, Tiny.

I like the day time night time routine the best.

 

I just love that Flash...............