Building a theme park is much like building a very elaborate cake. The inside of the cake is not fancy and takes the bulk of the time. Once that is done we will apply the fancy icing that makes all the fun. The crews in Trinidad are now towards the end of the cake baking part. The hundreds of icing components are tucked safely inside the thirty shipping containers that are lined up around the edge of the building site. The construction shot below is the concrete infrastructure for the decorated part illustrated in the concept below. By the time I return in January the site will be ready for the decorating (and fun) work to begin.
Two small pieces of a gigantic puzzle
Many months ago we cut hundreds of skull and crossed wrench logos from heavy half inch steel plate. We ground the edges smooth and then tossed them into the last shipping containers bound for Trinidad. On Sunday morning we pulled a couple from the container and delivered them to a local steel craftsman to weld into the first sections of fence. Today those first sections were brought to the work site and welded into place. The new fence panels were enthusiastically declared perfectly fine. Sixty more of the heavy plate steel logos then were fished out of the shipping container and sent along with the fence maker to be welded into sixty more fence panels. Soon the adventure park will be much more secure and spiffy with its shiny new, themed fence.
Realizing a dream
Six years ago we began the long winding journey that would become Skallywag Bay Adventure Park in Trinidad. It started as a tiny project and grew to become two and a half acres of fun playground with many activities for all ages. The worksite continues to be busy, with much construction underway and about thirty shipping containers full of themed elements waiting to be installed. Our team worked hard to make many fun things but other teams from across the USA and as far away as Italy also did their part to make it happen.
As I look over the construction site I of course see all of the work being accomplished but I also see clearly how it will all look when we are done. The fact is that most of what is currently being worked on so diligently will be hidden when we are finished. I can hardly wait for that phase which will begin soon!
