Our first stop on our Bellingham tour was the Heritage Flight museum. The top photo is the mash helicopter, it is a Sioux (Sue!!). It had a stretcher on the other side to carry the patient. The middle plane is a grasshopper, the wing fold up so it can be driven down a road or thru the jungle. The bottom plane has a propeller on the front and the back, it is a push pull airplane. Very interesting museum. Our second stop was the Spark Museum of Electrical invention. It had this sign outside the 10 foot tesla coil-which makes huge lightening. I was bummed that they only fire it off on weekends.
There were all kinds of cool things starting with achievements from 1580 from inventors like Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, and Guglielmo Marconi. This first photo are some of the early equipment for producing electrical charges. Basically it is rubbing fur on glass, you have to crank them by hand. I love these plasma balls, John has an electric hand.
I have electric fingers and nose. This rocket is downtown by the Rocket donut shop. It has blinky lights up the sides and neon red around the portholes.
This building was the city hall, I think it is a museum now. Fishing boats in the harbor.
The fork lift sign was at the gates of a shipyard. We stopped at the Marine life center and saw marine animals from the waters of Washington. Prawns, anemone, and these tentacles were all we could see of the giant pacific octopus.
Last but not least we stopped at a couple breweries. The Chuckanut and the Kulshan. John decided his first beer was not hoppy enough so he added some fresh hops from a vine at the brewery.
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