{"id":4444,"date":"2019-07-16T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agaaga.blog\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2020-04-20T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:55:02","slug":"pabellon-de-la-navegacion-navigation-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/2019\/07\/16\/pabellon-de-la-navegacion-navigation-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pabellon de la Navegaci\u00f3n (Navigation Museum)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Early morning walk to the Navigation Museum. From Neil’s reading, it supposedly had multi-sensory touch-listen-smell features – ideal for the kids. Felix needed a break for the day, so it was just Nolan, Lara and me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ducking out of doorways to capture photos of the construction vehicles on the narrow streets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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What country is that flag from?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Entrance to the museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Admission to the museum included a ride up Schindler’s Tower, a 50 m elevator test tower. We had our own guide, and were the only visitors!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inside the tower – we took the elevator \ud83d\ude1b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There are great views from the tower. According to the guide, we came to Sevilla at an ideal time as it’s very quiet. Normally, this tower is so packed that it’s difficult to get any pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The guide also explained that the little spritzes Sevilla receives in rain are full of the dust from the Sahara. There’s lots of window cleaning happening during this time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The first exhibit is a huge space of 14,000 LED bulbs on black stems of varying lengths. They turn on and off to give the impression of rolling waves. The screens show short films about the lives of those who went to sea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Replica of the San Pedro, the first ship to sail across the Pacific Ocean between America and Asia. In 1564!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Model of the first French warship that was built entirely in France in 1635. It had 72 guns, mimicking the Dutch galleons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Watching an animated film about a Dutch missionary at sea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Smelling ‘pitch’ or ‘tar’. This is a critical compound to make ships watertight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Engrossed in a film about the ‘lieutenant nun’. Catalina de Erauso was a nun who travelled around Spain and the Americas as a man. She served as a soldier while in the colonies, and achieved lieutenancy in rank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sailors ate a lot of hardtack biscuit, often infested with weevil larvae or maggots. One way to get your protein I guess …. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Descubierta took part in a scientific voyage to record botanical and zoological species in the Spanish colonies between 1789 and 1794.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Everyone on board could go many months without washing (yuck!). You could open the box and smell the mix of scents in a cabin (double yuck!!).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This luxury liner named Argentina could carry 1,590 passengers. It was broken up for scrap after the Spanish Civil War.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is a camakau, a traditional Fijian canoe made of hollowed tree trunks and twisted coconut fiber for the ropes. She’s wearing the “I’m hungry, please feed me look.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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He’s playing with a chip log<\/em>, which was used to measure the ship’s speed. The “chip” was thrown into the sear and the navigator used a sandglass to measure the number of knots that fell in 30 seconds. Then he would calculate the speed based on the distance between each knot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The astrolabe (bottom right) was the instrument used to determine latitude. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Spanish carrack was the first boat to sail around the word. It took Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano 3 years to complete the journey. Of the 5 ships that set sail, this was the only one to return; and of the 234 men that started the expedition, only 18 returned.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Don’t make her mad! \ud83d\ude1b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red woollen caps were worn by sailors to keep warm. They distinguished sailors to be from humble stock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is a Davis quadrant (English backstaff) replaced the astrolabe for measuring latitude.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tiles (“tejos”) of gold that came from the Americas. They were thrown by gentlemen at the feet of their ladies <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Weapons and restraints used during the times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Copper sheathing was used to line the hulls of ships to protect them from rotting and being damaged by molluscs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In 1906, the Mauretania was the largest ship in the world and capable of crossing the Atlantic in the shortest time possible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steel hulls brought about the massive increase in size of vessels, thus giving birth to oil tankers and container ships. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Planned for completion in 2025, the Orcelle is a prototype of a green liner that uses no fossil fuels and capable of carrying 10,000 vehicles. Toyata commissioned a Norwegian shipping company to build this model. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Naval college where we could learn and practice the skills of sailors. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You have to work the steering, rigging, and other devices as a team to pass various tests. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fighting pirates with the falconet, which is a small rotating cannon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I was a poor teammate as I kept leaving my post to take pictures. Everyone forgot about food at this point!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scurvy, also known as “the plague of the seas”, is a result of deficiency of vitamin C. It takes 90 days for the symptoms to be noticeable, with swollen gums, pain in the joints, and fatigue. The Scottish physician James Lind discovered that taking lemon juice prevented the disease.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sailors had to resort to eating this “delicacy” on long sea voyages. They would even pay a ducat for a rat when they were sick of eating leather from the yardarms or the sawdust on the deck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heading to the lower floor to check out models of different types of modern vessels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Felix spent his day driving his vehicles while Neil worked.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the evening, we went for a short walk with Neil around our neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Temperature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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22.9 km during the day with Nolan and Lara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2.9 km in the evening with Neil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Early morning walk to the Navigation Museum. From Neil’s reading, it supposedly had multi-sensory touch-listen-smell features – ideal for the kids. Felix needed a break for the day, so it was just Nolan, Lara and me. In the evening, we went for a short walk with Neil around our neighbourhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internationaltravel","category-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_9373-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}