Noah's Ark

This place is BIG! It is probably the largest underground space in UA City! This area could easily hold a thousand people at a time, five thousand if standing shoulder to shoulder. It has been the scene of an occasional underground party.

First you go down a small hole in the ground

The images below were taken using a Minolta 7000 camera on a tripod, with half to two second exposure times.
They were scanned in mostly at 100 Dpi.
The panorama shots are manually joined pairs of photos, hence the not quite matching joints.

Then you see this, and you start to get an idea of the size of the place

Then you get down and look around and think to yourself; "Shit this is BIG!" (scanned at 72dpi)

Then you see the people at the end and realise it is bigger than you thought.

Standing along a side we are dwarfed by the huge pillars

Massive! You could easily fit a thousand people down here with room to spare

Standing in the shadows of light

Taking a rest on the far side of the huge structure.
The mushroom shaped object on the far right is an outflow pipe.

Contemplating the space

It is about 17 metres from floor to ceiling

Detail of lights, support columns and vent pipes

Resting again

Ghosts among the concrete

Doorways opened

Urban Adventurers and the Temple of Doom.

The following images were taken with a digital camera.

Group photo

Lights on low beam

Exit tunnel / inflow tunnel

Long way up / graffiti left by explorers before us

Bottom basin

Taking a breather

Stairs and inflow baffles

Walking up the side

Image from up the side of the structure

The low side bit

Exit stair

Climbing up the side

Dirty hands

Outflow pipe and past explorer graffiti

Entry manhole

Control room

Control room

Big vent fan which we run to pre-vent the place before exploring it. Makes a lot of noise!

Service tunnel

Service tunnel

Sump

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And if you thought that was impressive, take a look at this.