We are proud that Sila's home port is Leadville, Colorado. It is a lot of fun to watch a European sailor look at the writing on our transom and make a face as he or she tires to decide if CO does, indeed, stand for Colorado and if he or she is correct in thinking that Colorado is a land-locked state. It has sparked many great conversations.
Like the picture before, this one was taken at sunset while we were in San Simόn just up the river from Vigo, Spain. It was a very well protected little harbor, which is exactly what we needed as we waited for some big weather to pass so that we could head south to Lisbon, Portugal.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this harbor was the sculpture in
the middle of the small bay. At high tide, there was a man standing on a
pedestal, holding a scroll. As the tide went out, you would begin to
see the diver (above) emerge holding the treasure chest full of
treasure. At extreme low water, you could see another diver swimming
near the bottom. We were puzzled about the meaning. As it turns out, the
man on the pedestal was Jules Verne, author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Incidentally, he also wrote Around the World in 80 Days, which
we listened to as a family earlier this fall. Seeing the tribute to
Verne and his story, we were inspired to download the Disney movie from
the 1950s. The boys appreciated seeing the movie, in part, because it
explained so many references they had seen such as the Nautilus Room at
the aquarium in A Coruña, or the name Nemo, or the organ that is played in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie
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Like the picture before, this one was taken at sunset while we were in San Simόn just up the river from Vigo, Spain. It was a very well protected little harbor, which is exactly what we needed as we waited for some big weather to pass so that we could head south to Lisbon, Portugal.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this harbor was the sculpture in
the middle of the small bay. At high tide, there was a man standing on a
pedestal, holding a scroll. As the tide went out, you would begin to
see the diver (above) emerge holding the treasure chest full of
treasure. At extreme low water, you could see another diver swimming
near the bottom. We were puzzled about the meaning. As it turns out, the
man on the pedestal was Jules Verne, author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Incidentally, he also wrote Around the World in 80 Days, which
we listened to as a family earlier this fall. Seeing the tribute to
Verne and his story, we were inspired to download the Disney movie from
the 1950s. The boys appreciated seeing the movie, in part, because it
explained so many references they had seen such as the Nautilus Room at
the aquarium in A Coruña, or the name Nemo, or the organ that is played in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie
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