If you haven't read it already and are interested the first of my trip to San Diego post is here and here you will find my confession about San Diego.
I'm pretty sure I was the only one excited about going to the Maritime Museum of San Diego and I was excited for one reason, Ghost Hunters.
They investigated the Star of India, the worlds oldest active ship and a California and National Historic landmark. So of course we had to check it out.
We saw some creepy stuff, but no ghosts.
Another boat Ghost Hunters investigated was the Berkeley. It's an 1898 steam ferryboat that operated for 60 years on San Francisco Bay. It is also a California and National Historic landmark. This boat was interesting to me because my Great-Grandfather was a ferryboat captain in Seattle and later his son, my uncle Jack, was a ferryboat captain too. When we would travel to Bainbridge Island he would let me "drive" the boat! Super cool when I was 7 years old.
Nothing weird or ghost-like to be seen on this boat either.
We also checked out H.M.S Surprise which is a replica of a 18th Century Royal Navy Frigate. It was used in the movie "Master and Commander" and in the 4th Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Even before I knew it was going to be used in the next Pirates movie I thought it looked like the Black Pearl. It was a fun ship to tour.
I'm not interested in reliving the tour we took of a B-39 Soviet Attack Submarine, but for the good of this blog post I will, just a little.
We had to climb through 4 of these holes in various spots along the way.
I'm ever so slightly claustrophobic. I'm ok, until I start thinking about it too much, then the hyperventilating starts, then the hot flashes, but I survived.
It turned out that even though I was the only one truly excited about the Maritime Museum everyone loved it and had a great time!
Stay tuned for my next San Diego adventure post!
Looks like a fabulous place to visit!!
Posted by: The Incredible Woody | April 18, 2011 at 09:14 AM
Awesome! I would love to see that one day.
Posted by: Tracey of These Nine Acres | April 18, 2011 at 09:55 AM
I'd love it. Anything to do with water, I'm usually up for it... especially boats & ships. I should be living in a house boat somewhere.
;-)
Posted by: Liz C. | April 18, 2011 at 01:54 PM
Ha! I love the TAPS guys! Too bad you didn't see one of them. :o)
That doll has some pretty creepy eyes. Other than that, the photos are AWESOME (although the creepy eye doll shot is pretty awesome, too, despite its creepiness!).
Posted by: Lisa | April 18, 2011 at 03:43 PM
In 5th grade our elementary school students spend the night on Star of India--it's very cool!
Posted by: Jenn @ Juggling Life | April 18, 2011 at 05:20 PM
Yes Ghost Hunters! I saw that one, where they heard footsteps on the top deck and no one was up there. Spooky!
Posted by: Meg | April 18, 2011 at 07:29 PM