Dockyard Deliberations

Today started with a rather windy early morning run with my brother. It was quite tough going as there were quite a few uphill sections and we seemed to be running into the wind most of the time rather than having it at our back.
Once we had had a restorative breakfast we decided to mix it up a little and go on a micro trip to Chatham Dockyard before we did the Sunday food shop.
At face value it's quite expensive to get in - £25.50 a head - but this is a yearly ticket and with 400 years of heritage and 80 acres to explore including warships, a submarine, shipbuilding artefacts and a museum you're never going to cover it all in one visit, so by the time you've been four of five times during the year it only works out at a fiver a time.
There's so much to see it took quite a lot of deliberation to decide which images to use. Somehow I've managed to select only one which includes any ships! 
My main shot is an off kilter image of a naval helicopter that sits alongside one of the docks. I just loved the combination of the metal work, the folded back rotor blades and the lettering.
My first extra, looking out across the dockyard, is taken from the deck of HMS Gannet, a sloop of the Victorian Royal Navy, which was built on the River Medway at Sheerness in 1878.
The second extra  is of the Upper Mast House. This is actually seven interlocking buildings built from reused ship's timbers dating from the 18th and 19th centuries and used to make and store masts as part of the shipbuilding process.