The trip to Long Beach was somewhat uneventful. Lots of radio traffic. Very hazy conditions with visibility about 1-3 miles.
We saw a square rigger cut across our path.
After the square rigger passed us, we decided to have lunch. Peanut butter and Jelly. Oops, we lost the jelly. Good thing we had another jar.
To get to the entrance of Alamitos Bay, Where we have a slip reserved at the Long Beach Yacht Club, we had to cross two shipping lanes. Lots of ship traffic. No time for pictures. We arrived at the Long Beach Yacht Club in Alamitos Bay at 4pm. The clubs are closed on Mondays, so we tied up the boat, explored the island a little, had dinner and hunkered down for the night.
The next day we checked in with the yacht club and took a little tour of the facilities. This is a very nice yacht club with a pool and three restaurants. After this we decided to check out the bus system to downtown. This is where the aquarium is. We spent the rest of the day at the aquarium and went to the movies. We saw “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”.
These are a few pics from the aquarium.
We thought this was a very unusual jellyfish.
Joel liked this sculpture so I took his picture with it. What it has to do with fish, we don’t know.
Now this is a big fish. Not the one in red.
This was one of the free shows we saw about the rising ocean.
After experiencing the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Aquarium of the Pacific was a little disappointing. It was small, and most of the few shows they had, cost extra.
When we got back to the boat we found a large sea lion parked on the end of our dock, just behind the boat.
He posed well for this picture.
The next day, we took the bus to the Queen Mary, and spent the hole day walking up and down and all around the ship. We started by taking a haunted tour. This took us to several areas of the ship that isn’t on the regular tour. very entertaining.
The following pictures are of the areas on the regular tour. The haunted tour was too dark to take pictures.
These are pictures on the bow.
This is one of the guns fitted to her during her service in world war II. She was nick named the grey ghost, because she was painted all grey.
The wheel house with all that brass.
Joel and I found the radio room with volunteer radio operators. W6RO is their call sign.
They invited Joel to call someone since he has his ham license.
This is the telephone switch board. All first class passengers had a telephone in there room.
After touring the Queen Mary we went to the Russian sub, Scorpion. it’s moored right next to the Queen Mary. We have a few pictures of the sub.
As you can see, there is not much room to work or live on a sub.
We left the sub and picked up a water taxi back to Alamitos Bay. Much faster, and more interesting. We are now planning our trip to Catalina Island. We leave on Sunday, August 21. Muggs will be joining us on the 1st.