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Wednesdays
Wednesdays are Adventure Days.
I only have one class that starts at 10 and so I have the rest of the day
free to wander and adventure.
The theme for the last two weeks has been "Aberdeen and the Sea". Last
week I went to the Aberdeen Maritime Museum, one of the best museums I
have ever been to, winner of the "Best Scottish Museum" award. It had
incredible exhibits on fishing, ships and shipbuilding, and the oil
industry. I spent a long time looking at the oil one, fascinated and
disgusted at the same time. It's such an amazingly complicated process; I
can't believe how deep we go for oil! It's also quite destructive. One
panel listed the products that were produced from oil or oil by-products.
I can't believe how many there were and how well used they are. A day
well spent.
Today was more of an interactive look at the maritime scene. I walked
down to the harbour and walked around the harbour, right up against the
ships and the water. I saw cranes and trucks and big ships and little
ships and men and women working and oil companies like Shell and BP and
all their big tanks. THEN, I walked all the way out to the lighthouse at
the mouth of the harbour, the farthest out on the sea I've been since I
got here. It was a beautiful beautiful day with clear skies and
visibility for miles. I saw seals and dolphins playing in the harbour
water and various ships of various sizes going in and out. For a while I
just sat on a bench at the end of the land on a cliff and looked out in to
the sea. It would have been better if there were not big nasty oil
transport ships to block the view and give perspective, but I guess
they're a part of the Maritime scene around here.
All in all I was walking for about 4 hours straight, taking pictures and
nodding hello to workers and seagulls.
I like Wednesdays a lot.
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