urban exploration

I’ve been curious to do this for a while, especially after it occured to me, “Hey…I’ll bet I can find other people online who do this!!” Well, I’m not really near a big city or anything, but there’s plenty of places around where I’m at in Northern California that I’d like to check out!

I’m a regular in my school’s steam tunnels, but I’d like to explore farther and with people from other places in other areas. There are explorers all over and I’d love to join them.

About a year ago we got into Urban Exploration – that being the exploration of abandoened buildings.

We managed to gain entry to an old abandoned hospital which sits looking gloomy in the centre of our town. Exploring it at night was really very creepy – all the windows were boarded up, our toarches kept running out and it had once been the workplace of the infamous serial killer Harold Shipman.

We found a whole load of interesting things lying around (though the “Take only photographs, leave only footprints” rule of Urban Exploration meant we had to merely check it out and leave it be) – including an ancient Computer manual, a remarkably well-preserved shirt and an unremarably-badly-preserved carton of 10-year-old milk. Yummy!

Aside from the hospital we also explored an old mill on the outskirts of town, We did this during broad daylight, as there was less chance of anybody pretesting, and saw one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. An old branch of a tree had been blown throught he window and landed on the stone floor of the mill, directly under a leak in the roof. The leak formed a puddle, which the branch’s snapped end was sat in. With this puddle for water and teh limit sunlight which came through that window for photosynthesis, the branch had stared to grow, spreading roots throughout the puddle, and remaining a large health living object sprouting green leaves in the middle of a dark cold mill.

It might be a little hard to imagine, but it was wonderful to see.