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Aquarium Rio
Moray Eel
(don't miss his eyes at the top) ~ the live one ------>
& the dead one.
The rain stopped . . . great timing because now we need to walk about a half a mile (? + - ?) to see murals.
The building prior to & adjacent to the aquarium.
~ electronic time boards in this area ~
Taking a look back -- the largest I've ever seen!
Some very interesting background for mural graffiti or street art ~ https://matadornetwork.com/read/rio-street-art-tours/
a pedestrian & metro zone ~ the backside of the Rio harbor, wharf, cargo, pier, dock area
If you want to read a little about this PORT area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Rio_de_Janeiro
With some larger photos, I want you to be able to walk with us because (with my back & cane) walking every few 100' was a milestone for me. I made use of those white, concrete benches for a few minutes after every 1-2 warehouses ~ each maybe about 200-250' long.
(Suggestion: The next entrepreneurial business in high-trafficked pedestrian/tourist areas, could be kiosks of a half-dozen rental golf carts at major points ~ like bicycles today ~ & pedal or v. low battery powered in order to have the least possible liability of hitting anyone. The traveling elderly are continuing to increase in numbers!)
There are 18 of these warehouses. We didn't need to walk all of them!!
looking forward . . . (& below, looking back)
Ah, the mural wall is in sight 😄.
On our guided tour to Christ the Redeemer yesterday, our guide told us that Brazilians call the murals or street art "grafite," pronounced "grah-fee-chee," & what we call graffiti, they say pixação (like "pixel"). Street art became legalized in Brazil in 2009. Then in 2014, a lady named Nina Gani founded the first of Rio's colorful Street Art tours for travelers.
Right now we're on the Olympic Boulevard, & by "Etnias - Mural de Graffiti" (Ethnicities - Graffiti Wall). It was in 2016 with the Olympics in Rio, that Street Art really got a boost by Eduardo Kobra who painted a massive 620'-long, diversity-themed mural created to celebrate the 2016 Rio Olympics. Compared to some photos on the internet, what we see today has become very faded which is sad compared to the original! Again, Street Art doesn't last forever, being in the outdoor elements, but for many artists, neighborhoods, & people of communities, it has opened up doors for the artists to go to places, & meet & impact people's lives which otherwise, would never have happened. That value, in turn, has opened up doors for others, & the cycle of improving people's lives continues on by each person's contribution to their culture & society, & sometimes, even the world.
This is a REPEAT link for additional street art info: https://matadornetwork.com/read/rio-street-art-tours/
NOTE: When I was searching for info on the warehouses at the "harbor area," I came across the following 4-minute You Tube video of the challenge of Brazil & its waterways - coast line - engineering, & how they're making great strides toward their future. This one project took 450 people, 3.5 million man-hours! And most of us aren't used to seeing these kinds of massive sea-going vessels which were needed for this project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3X5RS3Dhs&ab_channel=Boskalis
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I was trying to find out how long each of those 18 warehouses was & came across this following "istock" photo site. There were some excellent photos to show Rio from a perspective which my photos cannot give. If you really want a "fuller guided tour," as if in a helicopter or hot air balloon, this will only take a few minutes & will connect all the visuals for an A+, first class trip👍.
(P.S. I did not agree to anything in their popups - just looked.)
1st page photos #2-3-5-13-16 at istock --- https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/harbor-of-rio-de-janeiro
PHOTO #2, shows the Niteroi bridge across the lower/entrance end of the bay
PHOTO #3, (Aerial view of Port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ): shows the rooftops of the warehouses along the harbor
PHOTO #5, (Spectacular aerial view over Rio de Janeiro): You're looking southeast toward the Guanabara Bay entrance. Copacabana Beach would be along the right edge. The airport would be further up along the left edge. Sugar Loaf Mt. right-of-center. The favela: Squatter Community, lower left.
PHOTO #13, (View of Rio de Janeiro Port Area): the harbor side of the warehouses
PHOTO #16, (The Metro/VLT in new Rio de Janeiro Port): a normal day of foot traffic on this pedestrian boulevard
It's always been said that a teacher learns more than his students, & by making this website, that's such a true statement because with almost every "item of interest" that we toured, I now did at least a half-hour research on the internet to read & learn facts & some history behind the places we went to in order to provide some bits of info for you, the reader, & because of my own interest because "I was there!"
As a result, for myself this project has been another wonderful journey, even though it's now taken me 3+ weeks instead of my original idea of it taking one week of time! This has roughly been 12-14-hour days, 6 days a week, just so you know if you've got time on your hands for a project, OR need to schedule your own calendar accordingly.
The first week was just sifting through a couple thousand photos (our son's & mine), putting them into folders, then going through to choose, sometimes cropping, putting verticals & horizontals into groups to tell a story (because each can become a different size when applied to a web page), etc., etc. I had no idea it would take this much time, but now I'm nearing the end.
I want to encourage anyone reading this that you, too, can do a photo website like this for the enjoyment & educational benefit you can provide to others by using Webnode as your host. (I am not getting any benefit from them for saying that or promoting them. I'm just so thankful that I had an "angel" tell me about them in order to move my NationalBreadMuseum.org project forward, to do the Bible evangelism SaltyOats.webnode.com website, & now this.) I am self-taught via their "Knowledgebase" & complimentary email customer service help. And since I'm building within the allotted "free" space, when I die the websites will remain as long as Webnode exists, as no one needs to pay a yearly fee "to keep the websites alive."
I've also now gained a lot of additional website-building knowledge which will be tremendously beneficial for my NationalBreadMuseum.org project (I am paying for that domain name & hosting), & am planning to "give back" by offering a class of maybe 4-6, 2-3 hour sessions, as a volunteer to teach others in my community how to make a Webnode website (especially those in their twilight years) if they'd like to document aspects of their life for historical preservation! To me, Webnode's been a great gift. What a blessing.
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