TOUR OF COLUMBU’S SHIPS...SAT FEB 15th @ 2PM... the ‘Pinta’ and the ‘Nina’, replicas of Columbus’ Ships, will be open for tours in Fort Walton Beach. We will meet up at the front of the Winn-Dixie parking lot in Navarre and car pool to the Legendary Marine, 1198 Miracle Strip Pkwy SE, Fort Walton Beach to tour the ships and then enjoy a dutch treat dinner afterwards at The Olive Garden. IF YOU WILL BE GOING, PLEASE RSVP AND LET US KNOW IF YOU WILL BE MEETING TO CAR POOL (meeting at...
TOUR OF COLUMBU’S SHIPS...SAT FEB 15th @ 2PM... the ‘Pinta’ and the ‘Nina’, replicas of Columbus’ Ships, will be open for tours in Fort Walton Beach. We will meet up at the front of the Winn-Dixie parking lot in Navarre and car pool to the Legendary Marine, 1198 Miracle Strip Pkwy SE, Fort Walton Beach to tour the ships and then enjoy a dutch treat dinner afterwards at The Olive Garden. IF YOU WILL BE GOING, PLEASE RSVP AND LET US KNOW IF YOU WILL BE MEETING TO CAR POOL (meeting at 1:15) OR WILL SIMPLY BE JOINING US AT THE SHIPS (at 2:00).
The ‘Nina’ was built completely by hand and without the use of power tools. Archaeology magazine called the ship “the most historically correct Columbus replica ever built.” The “Pinta” was recently built in Brazil to accompany the Nina on all of her travels. She is a larger version of the archetypal caravel. Historians consider the caravel the Space Shuttle of the fifteenth century.
Both ships tour together as a new and enhanced ‘sailing museum’ for the purpose of educating the public and school children on the ‘caravel’, a Portuguese ship used by Columbus and many early explorers to discover the world.