CAN'T MAKE IT UP:

Noah's Ark Ready for the Flood Again

7:17 PM Mon 1 Oct 2007 GMT (Powerboat-World.com)

'Noah’s Ark in Schagen, ready for visitors - and the flood'

Since April this year, visitors have been able to visit Noah's Ark � well, not the original, but a one fifth version, and it wasn't built by Noah, but by Johan. He, with the doubtful support of his wife, built the Ark in just a year, and it is now even full of domestic animals.

It was built as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible, and now floats around the canals of the Netherlands.

Reckoning by the old biblical measurements, 48 year old Johan Huiber's fully functional ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high and 20 cubits wide. That's two-thirds the length of a football field and as high as a three-story house, and he built it in Schagen, 45km north of Amsterdam.

Life-size models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.

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Looks pretty authentic. Never hurts to be prepared.