We had been hearing much during the day about a fireworks show in the evening and once again it was to take place on the street in front of our apartment. We were coming home for our afternoon nap and sure enough, they were getting ready for the fireworks right in front of our apartment and in the churchyard across the street. It was amazing. It all started with long sticks of bamboo, many bags of black powder, much plastic tubing and roles of a nylon type ribbon that they used to tie everything. This first photo shows one of the many structures that were built to hold the home made fireworks. There were maybe 20 such structures in all, some bigger, some smaller, the biggest maybe 3 m in diameter, the smllest maybe 1 m in diameter.
And here are the home made firecrackers that make it all work. There were many 100s of them, some big, like these ones and some smaller. They were all joined together with black powder filled tubes.
This shows the top structure of explosives that was to go on the tower first.
These cubes are about 1m cubed and are tied together with the nylon ribbon to make the tower.
Again, the homemade bombs and bombs they were. My they were powerful and noisy.
One of the smaller designs that will go into making the total tower.
Another photo of the top structure, the biggest one, and here it is in place.
Each piece of the tower was about 1m high and as each one, 8 in all, was put in place, more firework pieces were added to the tower.
Here they are adding another meter to the base of the whole tower. It was lifted with a very precarious jack but there were 4 ropes from the top and people hanging on to keep it balanced. The red stuff is all fuse, and all filled with black powder.
I had to lay on the ground to get this one but shows a bit the many, many firecracker structures that were tied onto the tower
The show was to start at 9:00PM and I so badly wanted to be there to see them light the fuse, in fact I even wanted to lite it...... but no such luck. We waited around, both in our apartment and in the church courtyard just watching all the goings on and by 9:00PM we were tired and really wanted to go to bed. But we hung in there and at 10:00 PM the boss came and lit the fuse and the following ten photos show some of what happened. It was very smoky and very loud and hard to get in too close. There were no roped off places where the crowd could not go, only the heat and the noise and the smoke kept people from getting too close. d
And here are the home made firecrackers that make it all work. There were many 100s of them, some big, like these ones and some smaller. They were all joined together with black powder filled tubes.
This shows the top structure of explosives that was to go on the tower first.
These cubes are about 1m cubed and are tied together with the nylon ribbon to make the tower.
Again, the homemade bombs and bombs they were. My they were powerful and noisy.
One of the smaller designs that will go into making the total tower.
Another photo of the top structure, the biggest one, and here it is in place. 
Each piece of the tower was about 1m high and as each one, 8 in all, was put in place, more firework pieces were added to the tower.
Here they are adding another meter to the base of the whole tower. It was lifted with a very precarious jack but there were 4 ropes from the top and people hanging on to keep it balanced. The red stuff is all fuse, and all filled with black powder.
I had to lay on the ground to get this one but shows a bit the many, many firecracker structures that were tied onto the tower
The show was to start at 9:00PM and I so badly wanted to be there to see them light the fuse, in fact I even wanted to lite it...... but no such luck. We waited around, both in our apartment and in the church courtyard just watching all the goings on and by 9:00PM we were tired and really wanted to go to bed. But we hung in there and at 10:00 PM the boss came and lit the fuse and the following ten photos show some of what happened. It was very smoky and very loud and hard to get in too close. There were no roped off places where the crowd could not go, only the heat and the noise and the smoke kept people from getting too close.It was an absoutely spectacular show, with not one custom made firecacker, not one electric circuit and no computor to time it all. It was just ingenuity and a big of guts.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it took about one half hour from beginning to end. What a show!!!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it took about one half hour from beginning to end. What a show!!!
1 comment:
Wow, What a show is right. I am glad that you stayed up long enough to see it. Even if you had gone to bed you would have been awakened, no doubt. I love fireworks. I was chaperoning Andrew's Pony Club Tethrathlon at Nationals in Ottawa and we were able to see an international fireworks competition on an island in Hull and it was amazing.
See you soon.
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