A Trip Back in Time

It was a really neat day today.  After church, Sister and I went to Lake Guntersville to the marina.  Docked at the marina were replicas of the Nina and Pinta ships used by Columbus to discover the New World.  We went on board and saw the way they lived on ship during the time of Columbus.  It's  very tiny.  I can't imagine being stuck on there for three months with a whole lot of people and not having a serious personality conflict with some folks.

The Nina was to scale, but the Pinta is actually about 50 percent larger than the original.  It's still way too small to spend that much time on.  And it got worse.  The Nina was the only survivor of a hurricane in the West Indies and after picking up survivors from the other ships it sailed to Spain with 201 people on board.  The ship is slightly over 1900 square feet and not all of that is available to the crew.  That had to be one uncomfortable trip.

It was an interesting way to spend a warm Sunday afternoon.  Now I've got to do some relearning my history lessons.