ONE BIG SHELL

This is the shell of the 100-ton gun I showed you yesterday which is at Fort Rinella. I managed to convince Max to stay a few seconds next to it to show you the size; he wasn’t very cooperative and made a funny face with the straw of a juice packet he had just drunk.
The shell alone of this big gun weighed one ton. If you enlarge you can read the info next to it. You can also read the date on the shell – 10.9.89 (10 September 1889)
Fort Rinella was handed to Din l-Art Ħelwa (This Beautiful Land - or Nation) a non-profit making NGO to be developed and cared for. Talking to the ‘instructor’ who was teaching the children Roman army tactics I was told that not many people visit the fort as hotels and tour operators prefer to take tourists to the more sought after attractions. I was very sorry to hear that as, I think, the fort is very interesting to visit.
Many thanks for looking and for all your lovely comments and the fav's on yesterday's picture.

[Taffy]

that's huge!! Well captured

[Joyce]

Great capture and Max looks fun!

[sally agnew]

Oh my, that is gigantic and rather scary :)

[Tony]

Great little assistant you have there Dione. That shell is a whopper.

[alia_801]

That's a huge shell!

[Chris K]

great shot of Max. what a huge shell

[Jasper]

Great to pose Max alongside it to get a sense of scale.

[Sheralee S]

We needed Max for the sense of scale, it is huge!

[richard saffold]

just looked back at the cannon and can't imagine how they loaded it.

[Ivan]

It is!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Wow, great shot.

[Jane Anderson]

Max is a fun character! One ton! Oh forevermore!

[Tremerryn]

Tremendous pose :)

[gloria jones]

Cute, fun capture

[tony gig]

Lovely happy capture.

[Pyrrhula]

Designed to kill people I`m not a big fan of this.
Gladly it`s dismantled and save to stand next to it . A great shot

[Margaret Brown]

A huge shell, glad that it is now defused.

[Chris]

Impressive!

[Mickey Anderson]

Love forts and always scope them out when we vacation. So much interesting History at them!! Neat capture!!

[Kathy]

Toooooooo cute!! I think you and Max must have an awful lot of fun!! I think he likes posing too!! FAV!

[Richard Hickey]

Cool picture.

[Sylvia du Toit]

Thanks for sharing and a special thanks to Max. Now you can see more or less the size.

[Dione Giorgio]

@taffy @thistle @hermann @tonydebont @alia_801 @cruiser @jasperc @bella_ss @chard @ivan @mittens @cejaanderson @tremerryn @seattlite @tonygig @pyrrhula @craftymeg @gooner46 @cashew @agedrunner @sdutoit Thank you very much for the lovely comments. Much appreciated.

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

Wow! I dread to think how much damage that would inflict! Manufacturing something like that is no mean feat, either.

[Dione Giorgio]

@dulciknit I agree it must have scared the wits of enemy spies, if there were any around.

[Leana Niemand]

How interesting!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

That is huge! Great idea to put Max next to it- it really does drive the size home.