{"id":339,"date":"2010-11-03T23:32:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bonaire2010.mcguireclan.org\/?p=339"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:24:29","slug":"3-nov-2010-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"3 Nov 2010 Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barker girls and their mother sewing<\/p><\/div>Today was a little different. This morning I went into the office and met with the Barker girls and we made some quilt shapes. They will put them together for a hot pad. It was fun, but I think it would have been easier and more

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This osprey was eating a small fish.<\/p><\/div>enjoyable to have better equipment. My scissors have gotten very dull and Rhonda’s scissors were no better. But we managed to cut the shapes and fold them around the paper octagons. Now to see how it finishes up.<\/p>\n

On our way home we saw a bird eating its catch by the sea. We went around the block and took a picture. He was quite happy to have his picture snapped until I got out of the car to see if I could get closer. <\/p>\n

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Trying to get a closer photo, the osprey flew off.<\/p><\/div>\n

As we drove by the fish market, we noticed that they had lots of fruit and even some plants from Venezuela. We stopped and bought bananas and papaya and took a picture of the ‘banana boat’ (as

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Due to heightened security since 9\/11, it is not longer possible to buy produce on the pier directly off the Venezuela 'banana boat'. <\/p><\/div> we used to call them) at the wharf. We used to buy straight off the boat, but things have changed. <\/p>\n

On our way to the site we saw a ship at the salt flats pier, so we drove the extra mile past the site gate to take some pictures. When we got closer, we heard a warning siren, which we learned later was because they were in the process of opening the huge covers over the rear hold in preparation for loading.<\/p>\n

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Beginning preparations to load salt <\/p><\/div>\n

We checked again several hours later as were were heading home. We could now clearly see that the huge covers over the hold were folded back. The conveyor belt was running and salt was flowing into the ship’s hold using a funnel type arrangement. We assume this is so

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The huge hold doors can be seen standing up like two big pup tents. Salt is moving up the conveyor.<\/p><\/div> the falling salt will not blow around under windy conditions. Unless there are conveyors inside the hold, they will need to move the ship to fill the front hold. <\/p>\n

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The loaders are about 1\/4 mile away -- hence the poor quality of the photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

We were amazed to see that the loading onto the conveyor was being done by a couple of front end loaders. They loaded the salt into a hopper over the conveyor belt which evenly distributed salt onto the conveyor. We observed that the loaders were not able to load enough salt to prevent empty spots on the conveyor belt. It is going to be interesting to see how long it takes to fill this huge ship.<\/p>\n

NOTE \u2014 To see a bigger (and in some cases, expanded) version of any of the images in this blog, just click on the one you want to see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was a little different. This morning I went into the office and met with the Barker girls and we made some quilt shapes. They will put them together for a hot pad. It was fun, but I think it would have been easier and moreenjoyable to have better equipment. My scissors have gotten very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,8],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonaire-2010","tag-10","tag-bonaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}