It was a big day on site as they poured the concrete for the walkway across the top of the train station. One more giant slab will finish the bulk of the structure work and make way for the beginning of the theme work. In six weeks I return to start placing the features and a bit later the rock team will begin placing the rock panels on the monkey rock climbing structure. Around that same time we will begin shaping the ground in a serious fashion as well. The days of the site being dead flat are almost behind us. I climbed the stockpile mountain of gravel they have already amassed to take this panorama shot this afternoon. Late tomorrow night I begin my journey home for a very brief stay before heading off to Dubai for another great Viking ship adventure. It's going to be fun!
Building the complicated cake
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.
