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A Spanish Floating Museum More info: towaterfrontfest.com/tall-ships/el-galeon/
THE REPLICA OF THE GALLEON
It took three years to research the main historical and maritime archives in Spain and compile all necessary information about galleons’ shapes, details and measures so that this replica could be built.
Historical research was then followed by structural design, a work that took 6 months, and later on followed the construction of the galleon, which lasted 17 months and employed 150 people until her launching in Punta Umbría (Huelva, Spain) on November, 2009. The replica has been designed and built by Ignacio Fernandez Vial, a naval engineer and historian, commissioned by ship owner, the Nao Victoria Foundation.
During construction, a completely original and innovative technique was used: the hull and decks were built up in layers of fibreglass and after that the whole structure was lined with wood. It was the first time this method was applied to any ship heavier than 500 tons meant for oceanic sailing.
Essentially, this is a 500 ton galleon, with length overall reaching 160 ft. and beam 32 ft. Four masts hold 6 sails which measure almost 11,000 square foot. Average speed is 7 knots. Since her launching, a crew between 15 to 35 people have manned her across the seas and oceans around the world. She has navigated the Pacific and Indian oceans, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and her wake has spread over the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the South and East China seas, the Aegean Sea, the Bosphorus strait and the Caribbean Sea, covering thousands of nautical miles in an attempt to evoke her ancestors.
More Info: www.tallshipsportland.com/el-galeon/
I hiked out onto the Leslie St Spit to see what the cold snap had created on the shoreline and found this amazing tree encased in ice, built up bit by bit as water splashed up from the lake and instantly froze.
This is a stitch of 3 photos taken to encompass her beauty and taken with a circular polarizer.
at least that's what Northern Saw Whet Owls seem to think if they just stay still and don't move
(not my shot taken by my daughter-same time we saw the Barred at the Leslie Street Spit with the Owl Whisperer (I-P-S) and Bananaram too of course-sorry Andrew I thought I just copied and pasted from the Barred shot and you were there)
Happy Disguised Feathery Friday
Please keep Lisa and Savior in your hopes and prayers-they need it
I went to Tommy Thompson Park with Bonnie Shulman today and took a lot of Tern shots but I liked this one with our famous landmark
These young birds are so large they look like they should be able to leave the nest. But an aggressive flapping of their wings is all they can manage. They had just been fed and are watching another fledgling in an adjacent nest being fed - rather enviously, it seems.
I haven't posted anything in about 6 months here. I hadn't decided if i wanted to pay the new double price, but under the threat of deletion, I decided to return in the hopes theres some of that great flickr community I remember from the mid 2000s left.
I took this photo in September, while riding my bike out on the Leslie St Spit, where old rubble from Toronto-past is dumped, and reused sometimes for inukshuks.
Snow tracks leading toward Lake Ontario in Toronto.
Prints of this photograph are available at Fine Art America, here: fineartamerica.com/featured/winter-walks-apart-kyra-savol...
well not really royal request I just called it that because it's a Kingbird ;D
though I did get a request from William Dalton and if you want to see a really good Kingbird shot-leave here immediately and go there!
Journey to an alien landscape where mangled rebar emerges from the depths. A shoreline littered with demolished civilizations. Nocturnal predators howling in the darkness. Welcome to the Leslie St. Spit. This is The Long Walk Home.
A wall made from discarded bricks along the Leslie St Spit, Toronto.
Infrared photo. best seen large
Skyscrapers made from the clean fill along the edges of the Leslie St Spit in Toronto. Infrared photo.
RACE DAY INFO
SUNDAY, JUNE 24TH, 2018
START TIMES
21.1K Race starts promptly at 9:00am
10K Race starts promptly at 9:10am
5K Race starts promptly at 9:20am
NOTE: Strollers are only permitted on the 5K course
LOCATION
Tommy Thompson Park
1 Leslie Street
Toronto, ON
Pictures will be posted here 48 hours after the event.
Went biking along the spit took an empty trail going off the main road and captured this lovely shot of my friend biking in front of me. The spit "Is a man-made headland in Toronto, Ontario, extending from the city's east end in a roughly southwesterly direction into Lake Ontario. It is about 5 km long." wiki
but this one wasn't too interested in playing ;D
This is from way back when I first met the owl whisperer and Andrew Don at the Leslie St. Spit-my Nikon battery died and my Kodak was on it's way out so I only took a few shots with my daughters camera-I think this is mine
Happy Peek a boo Feathery Friday!
I'm off to visit Mon@rch and won't be back til Sunday-have a great weekend everyone :D
and yes I should have left already!
Misty morning - Tommy Thomson Park
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Went out for a sunrise shot; but weather presented me with this misty shot. Love the calm morning; haze and mist hanging in there; still sleepy from the night before.
