Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Maritime Museum


Today we went to the Maritime museum in Stanley, on the other side of HK island.  It's a great little museum with the history of ships in HK from the Ming dynasty to today.  Lots of wonderfully made models of ships from junks to cargo carriers.  Also a neat gift shop!

great interactive exhibits there.  In one you try and steer a simulated cargo ship.  tough job!  There's a big lag time  in steering.  In another you try and tap out morse code messages for various disasters.  Get it right and the guy lives; wrong and he dies.  I got "fire" but didn't get "overboard."  that guy drowned.

by the way, gas is 7.50 US dollars a gallon here.  Don't complain, USA!


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