Today ( actually, yesterday now ) was the day for our Pearl Harbor tour. As guests of the Air Force we were set up with the special military tour, much cozier and personal. This is not the boat we rode, it is the Admral's "Barge".In my youth I lived for a time near the Erie Cannal, And I saw plenty of barges. None of them looked like this one. Aparently, things are diferent for admrals.
This vessel, however, is in diferant condithion. This is what is left of the Utah. It seems that before our friends the japanise were sending us Toyotas, they were seending bombs. The Utah was a recipreant of a few.
Here is a look at the Arazona, the finaal resting place of many of our sailors. This happened like, over 65 years ago and the oil is still seeping from the hulk. In the memorial the smell of fuel oil is still strong. You can see the rainbow paterns floating on the surface as you study the ship below.
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The park people say the Arizona is starting to collapse in on itself. All that steel that has been rusting for all those years can not hold up forever. There is real concern that the fuel tanks could burst open and dump the remainder of the fuel out at once. But there is not much they can do about it.
Pearl Harbor is also on the list of things I would make a major effort to visit - along with the black sand beach and Volcano National Park.
Good photos.
You've got some impressive pics from this trip! I like this one of the sunken boat :-).
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