I spent the last weekend at the Monaco Yacht Club for an ISAF Judging Seminar.
It was a great experience with excellent instructors and
fellow geeks from 8 countries.
Needless to say the facilities were not your typical dinghy
club. It's the multistory white building below.
It is certainly the nicest yacht
club I have ever been in (and the only one I have been to with a jacket and tie
required for dinner). And it has a superb bar with the bar in the shape of a famous Riva Aquarama.
We had lunches on a terrace overlooking the water and various cruise liners and yachts.
We had lunches on a terrace overlooking the water and various cruise liners and yachts.
Quite interesting to see an Optimist regatta (the little white dots in the photo above) just behind a
cruise liner and various posh yachts.
I also visited the Oceanographic Museum and Aquarium. Both were very well done and worth the visit. I especially enjoyed some beautiful jellyfish displayed in a
soft blue light, pulsating slowly. And I saw what is probably the ugliest and
deadliest fish in the world – a rockfish with venomous spines. It is really hard to see against the
bottom - two of them in the photo below. According to the information
displayed, stepping on them or otherwise getting injected is fatal to 25% of
human victims. Yikes!
And another fish (I forget the name) is born a female and
dies a male. Not sure about all the details but it brings the notion of
transgender to a new level.
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