Newport, RI Wednesday 27 June 2007

The "Tall Ships"are here for a major celebration in Newport. This is largest group of ships since the US 1976 celebration. We spent the afternoon walking along the docks of Newport Harbor looking at the "Tall Ships". They were coming into port for the week-end festivities. Since this is Wednesday, we were able to walk amongst the crowds and take pictures before the many anticipated scores of people. Thursday through Sunday you will be able to board the boats . The ship with the blue ball on the yellow square and green background is from Brazil. On Sunday, there will be the "Tall Ships"parade of boats that will head out of the harbor down to the ocean and around the island.









This ship is from Columbia. We saw the sailors in their white dress uniforms walking along the docks. There are many scheduled activities this week-end such as a tug of war among the ships crews, heaving line toss and a bucket brigade and knot tying on the north lawn of Fort Adams. The ships are from all over the world. We also saw some of the ocean racing boats ( round the world racers) in the Newport shipyard.

We watched one of the ships come into port with the assistance of a tug boat helping them maneuver among the other boats and the floating docks. Other things going on at Newport this week are the Naval Command College 50th reunion. President George Bush will be attending the reunion tomorrow. We finished the day off by driving along Ocean Drive ( we rented a car for the day) gawking at the Newport Mansions and enjoying the ocean breezes, large green lawns, and beautiful scenery.

We love these beautify flowers which were hedged along the streets and roadways .