I wonder if this is the world’s largest ship in a bottle? It’s the one boutside the Maritime Museum, the subject of this month’s Gosport Shed Outing, and another excellent visit it was as well. Well…the journey up didn’t go too well. The drive from Gosport towards the M27, took us an hour, and I say towards because we took a diversion over the hill. We went over the motorway, and the eastbound lane was stationary. So that decision by the coach driver was a good one.
Traffic going in to london was heavy, so we ended up arriving an hour later than was intended, which meant that we had from 1130 – 1630, which actually for me, turned out to be just about right.
The first thing that I noticed was that the Amateur Photographer of the Year exhibition was on. it was a no-brainer, really, so I spent a good hour going around that. I loved all of the pictures, particularly those of the Aurora, which were beautiful. Well, they all were. But I think there were two areas that were impressive: the dep space images. These were amazing, and don’t forget they were being done by amateurs. The second impressive area was the junior section. Those were just amazing. An hour well spent.
I then went into the rest of the museum, which turned out to be quite a bit bigger than I thought. Broken down into areas, there were only a couple of interactive displays in each area, but I thought that was right, pluse they were all working (well, there was one interactive service that was broken, but instead of saying that, the sign on the display said “We are sorry, but this service is lost at sea” which made me chuckle.
All of the areas were interesting and informative, but the area which I found most interesting was The Antarctic. i don’t think anyone can really appreciate how harsh that environment can be without having been there.
The only disappointment of today was that we didn’t end up in a Wetherspoons. Apparently, it was just too awkward to reconcile going to eat and parking the coach, so we had to give it a miss.
Still an excellent day though.
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