Shetlands trip, step 2: Aberdeen

From the hotel to downtown

A very rocky (and occasionally colorful) city:

    

The maritime museum:

     

   

This quilt, "My Basket's Lined with Silver," was made in 2012 by the Aberdeen Patchwork & Quilting Group: 

  

A diving suit:

  

What it eventually replaced:

   

Remote control camera thingies (large and small):

Dev contemplates a career move into the oil industry:

What could possibly go wrong?

Life-saving harpoon gun, used to fire a line to a sinking ship:

Herring barrel stencils:

   

Apparently, people were peculiar:

Fish drying:

    

Scrimshaw:

 This model was built in 1688:
 

Sometimes it's an advantage to be short:

  

A metal stamp:

A thingy:

 Ship hull model, with bird model:

The sleeves used to attach the upper mast to the lower mast:

Nice nose, sir:

People do amazing things:

The view from the upper level:

  

Including a look at our ride to the Shetlands!

Not to mention other boats:

The building next door also looks like a ship:

Textiles and tools from a long time ago:

  

 

Decoration and entertainment:

  

Concealed artwork:

 Ding!

Interesting facts about the area:

How to build a boat (in this case, the SS Larut, built in 1927):

Naturally:

   

Let there be light:

Not the name I would have chosen, for a couple of reasons (one of which might not have been relevant when the ship was built):

I guess she was never expected to help sail the boat, which is a good thing given that she has no arms:

Outside the museum:

The museum itself; the part next to the former church housed an early provost (mayor) of Aberdeen: