USS Alabama
24 February 2018 | Dog River Marina
70 cloudy
Decided to take a day off boat prep, and do tourist stuff while we had a rental car. Went to Battleship park, and toured the Alabama.
This battleship is 680 ft long and could cruise at 50 km/hr. The big guns could fire shell 22 miles. Impressive, but the two German battleships of that time had a-range of 26 miles. Bit of a problem in a fight! It carried 1793 officers and men. Phew, busy cooks! It had quite a short career, being commisioned in 1942, and taken out of service in 1947.
There also was a military aircraft museum attached which we toured. Also went a F 15 simulator and took a flight through some canyons. Pretty cool.
Tonight cooking dinner for the first time on the boat. Our tummies need a rest. Last night had Catfish covered in hot cajun shrimp gravy. When asked if we wanted fries or vegetable, we were told that veggies were.....mac & cheese, or grits. They do love carbs down here.