Rotating Boat Carousel Lock - Falkirk, Scotland
Friday, March 14, 2008
Hey!
My beautiful girlfriend forwarded onto me an awesome powerpoint show from her Dad via email about this amazing water carousel lock system in Scotland which is apparently called the Falkirk Wheel which allows boats to drive into a huge "bath tub" of sorts and then the bath tub rotates with the boat still in it to the next canal which is 8 stories below (or above) depending on the direction the boat is heading.
Check out these links: (the powerpoint show) WaterCarouselLockSystem.pps, the Wikipedia entry: Falkirk Wheel and finally here is the official Falkirk Wheel website.
Also, apparently the wheel is a pretty popular tourist attraction for the locals as well. It appears that some people even get married there. Guys/Girls, now there is an idea for a good place to tie the knot, think about it you could very literally take a spin on a love boat.
-Mike
2 Comments:
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Courtney, Tue Mar 18, 09:07:00 AM
Courtney, Tue Mar 18, 09:07:00 AM
Courtney, we should move to Europe. We should take the next available flight, great call.
-Mike
-Mike
So cool... I definitely have to see this in action some day.
C