Another nice day here in Florida. It wasn't all that warm, only getting up into the low 60's, but with a bright sun and no wind to speak of it was a good day to spend some time outside.
   For me it was a good time to do a few more outside maintenance chores. To that end I finished up installing a line of screws and fender washers along both sides of the trailer up at the front corner seams. It is hoped that these will hold the side panels in while the trailer is underway instead of billowing out while on the road. I also removed a bunch of old caulking along those seams, so it seems likely that this has been a long term problem. Since it wasn't warm enough today I decided to hold off applying new caulking until tomorrow when it is suppose to get into the low 70's. Once that is done I have some special white Gorilla Duct Tape to go over each seam as a final layer of protection and hopefully that will be all that is needed.
   I also had a couple more cans of spray of roofing mastic that I used around the final two roof vents. It appeared likely that the stuff I sprayed on the other day dried well, and I am hopeful that I have stopped any roof leaks that may have been there from getting worse, and hopefully fixed them for good.
    This afternoon was pleasant as I took some time to run out to the actual Fort De Soto site and explore the ruins of the gun emplacements. I also spent some time walking on the beach and looking for sea shells and odd birds. I watched several ospreys hunting for fish in the shallows out by the mangroves. It was fun to watch several of them dive down and grab fish right out of the water. They seemed to be a lot better at it than several human fishermen who were competing with them. One wonderful thing about this area is that there does seem to be plenty of osprey in the area. On the road in and out of the park there is on average at least one bird sitting on every 3rd or 4th street light pole. Often times they are all sitting there munching on their recent catch.
    I also spent a little time this morning working on some more pictures I want to post. They are also from several months ago when we were in Norway. But for today, and one more day after this, here are a few more photo's from our trip to England last spring.


 Contra Dance Week in Ely England - April 7 to 16 - Part XIV
  

Another side trip to a local attraction, this one to Bletchley Park, the estate in England where very smart people were gathered together during WWII to see if they could break Germany's secret codes which were produced by what was known as the 'Enigma machine'. This is the entrance to the estate from the bus park. From historical photos this small lake was a very popular spot for workers to have picnics at in the summer and ice skate in the winter.

Another view of the grounds. The actual main estate can be seen through the trees in the middle. Surrounding it were many other buildings that housed and fed all of the workers there as this was also the site of most of England's intelligent services during the war.

The main estate, an interesting amalgamation of many architectural styles.

Perhaps a better view. This was where all the big wigs in the intelligent services lived and worked. It was during this time that England started what would later become the 'SAS' MI-5 and 6. The equivalents of the United States CIA, FBI and NSA. But for me it was the work done by Alan Turing and his team in breaking the Enigma Code that was the most interesting. This was ably shown last year in the Hollywood movie 'The Imitation Game'.

This small display seemed to explain what the Enigma Machine was the best. It was the use of this machine that allowed Germany and its allies to send coded messages for many years without worrying about them being broken.

Alan Turing, a mathematical genius, and a group he put together, finally managed to build a machine, the fore runner of a computer, that could make the billions of calculations that were needed to break the code.

This is actually one of those machines that they built and used during the war. By breaking the Enigma code it is believed that they managed to shorten the war by nearly two years and saved many hundreds of thousands of lives. Unfortunately the hero of the day, Turing, was disgraced after the war because he was gay. He ended up committing suicide after being convicted of the sin of ----- being human.... just not the right kind evidently. One wonders what other problems he might of solved if he had lived and been given the accolades he deserved.

Beauty and the Beast. Rima with a Griffin statue. They had a wonderful audio tour you could take of most of the buildings. As usual we didn't have enough time to see everything.

*brk