Nina and pinta schedule free#
Then you're free to wander at will on the larger Pinta for as long as you like. For the price of admission, ($8 adults, $7 seniors, and about half that for kids), you get a group tour of the Nina, the smaller of the two vessels. So I came back at the 9 am opening the next morning and got on after a short delay. It was obvious it would take at least two hours in line to get aboard. Sheriff's deputies were helping control the traffic and crowds. There was a line stretching down the street, almost out of sight.
I went on the last Saturday, figuring there would be a few people wandering over the decks. It was one of their last stops in the Gulf of Mexico before they were scheduled to head to the East Coast of the U. Marks, Florida, about 30 miles south of Tallahassee. They waited, sometimes two or three hours in line, for a chance to see these two replicas of history, traditionally constructed presentations of the Nina and Pinta, two of the three ships Christopher Columbus sailed on his discovery voyage to the New World. The curious, in jackets, t-shirts and bright colors, flowed over the decks of the two black-hulled ships, the most colorful bits on a day when the sun only peeped through the clouds.
Smart phones and digital cameras were everywhere 'selfies' by the capstan on the foredeck, closeups of the giant wooden thimbles on the lower end of the mast stays, shots of the aft masts, with their huge, boomless lateen sails. Standing on the traditionally planked deck, it seemed a blast of megabytes and pixels were swirling in an unseen, unfelt gale. I originally thought both boats had four masts, but now I think Pinta's aft spar is a flagpole at least no sail is set on it and I couldn't find any pics on the Internet showing a sail there. Nina, on the left, and Pinta, at the dock in St.
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