Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Niña & Pinta

Replicas of Colimbus' ships are docked in Little Rock behind the Peabody hotel and will be there until early Tuesday morning.  (Take cash with you to pay the $7 entrance fee.)


The ships were much smaller than I expected them to be.


The ship was steered by the rutter stick (fancy name I forgot) not a steering wheel, which was invented 80 years after Columbus' death.


Below is a map of the fleet's voyages (not including trips to Spain.)



And our favorite: explosive devices.


1 comment:

John and Pam Majors said...

What a fun day for JI! I had heard that the ships were quite small.

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