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23rd
December 2002
I've been doing
some background updates over the past month as well as adding more stuff to
the 2002 world trip pages. I completely updated the site map offering it as
one big page or the faster loading site
map by section pages. I'll be adding videos from the trip in the new year.
I also added a new FAQ page for students
who may review the site.
20th
November 2002
Big
trip ends - some pics now online
After 10 weeks
of traveling around the world it is good to be home again. I visited many
places, and met many really nice people. The trip would not have been possible
without the kind help and knowledge of those I visited. A very big thanks
to all of the people I stayed with and met. I hope once I get back online
again to keep in touch with everyone.
I have started
a page about the trip with some
limited pictures already online. It is a work in progress with more pictures
coming soon. There is also a journal
of the trip and comparison of the cities
I visited, their culture, transport and how livable they are.
During the trip
I traveled around the world once on ten plane flights, two train trips and
about dozen bus trips, visiting ten countries. I have returned with 3900 digital
photos and 15 hours of video footage. Understandably this will be too much
to put online, so I will be producing a CD which people will be able to obtain
by post. More details later on that. However I will be putting many of the
images from the trip on this web site. This will take some time due to work
commitments.
I have not yet
linked these new pages from the Site Map but they have been indexed by the
site search engine. Some still need to be checked for spelling.
16th
August 2002
The
Big Trip begins.
Over the next 3
months I will be on the hoof traveling around the world to visit many other
Urban Explorers and many urban Adventure sites. I will be visiting Italy,
France, Germany, The Netherlands, The Vatican, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada
and the United States. For this reason I will be difficult to contact, and
the web site will not be updated much. I will try to add a few small updates
as I travel. Many thanks to those who I will be meeting on the trip and to
those who have offered accommodation.
The highlight of
the trip for me will definitely be meeting the many other explorers out there
whom I have admired for along time. It will also be great to share recollections
of adventures, ideas and new ways to innovate in our hobby.
29th
July 2002
Added
a link to City
Link - UA City road tunnel
I did this tunnel
a while back and it has been online for some time but I forgot to add a link
to it. This is just one of three large road tunnels I have walked through.
This one on an open day.
Updated the email
page to advise people that I may be hard to reach over the next 3 months.
Please be patient when waiting for replies to emails.
2nd July 2002
Updated the copyright
policy to deal with bandwidth theft. Sorry
for the drastic action, but as I have said in the copyright
policy, if you want to borrow an image, ask first!
14th
June 2002
I finally got off
my but to update two of my links pages, United
States and United Kingdom ones. Three new
links being added. I really must update my links because some are becoming
out of date. I just don't have much time to do this. :( Sorry to those who's
links I took so long to add. I also updated the 'who'
page with a bit more info about me.
4th
May 2002
The
Geelong Power Station (GPS) was a great place
to explore. Though now more or less sealed up and hard to get into, the building
still has some secrets to reveal. It is most famous for the dodgy staircase
leading up on to the roof of the six story high building. Mostly exterior
shots, with a few early morning interior ones. This is not my best work but
still worth looking at.
.
Also
well worth looking at are 'The ones that
got away'. Some times I have explored places but have not been able to
photograph them or other times I have lost the photos some how. This is not
all of the buildings I have missed, but quite a few of them.
I updated the Buran
page with four new photos of the wheel bays and belly of the shuttle. I also
updated the web page statistics and the site
map which contains links to every web page on the site apart from the
college tunnel single image pages and some of the Industrial Giant pages.
I also updated
the "Stuff" page to show some
images of the sort of junk you just find lying around when you explore some
of the places I get around to.
12th
April 2002
Yes, that's a big
gap between February and now. It does not mean I have not been doing anything.
I just have not been on the Net as much as I used to. Got some nice new stuff
for you all.
And,
now for your enjoyment... Buran, The Russian
space shuttle. I was contemplating leaving this out all together as these
are the sort of snaps any determined tourist could take. But what the heck.
It was a different sort of exploration. Not everything I explore is off limits
and hard to get to.
The Slaughter
House. Another big abandoned industrial building. This three story building
was a bit scary to explore. With the dodgy staircase from hell, holes in the
floor and a spooky history it wasn't the sort of place you would want to stay
in at night. Well north of UA City this place was in the middle of nowhere.
It took a 2 day drive to get there.
I have not been
updating my links as much as I would like. But a site I'd like to recommend
is nightphotographer.com. Many
nice abandoned industrial buildings to be seen there.
10th
February 2002
Had
a great find a few weeks ago! A friend alerted me of a massive Industrial
Giant that was being torn down. I had known of the place before but never
entered it due to tight security. I snuck in to explore the massive complex,
avoiding security guards and workmen. It was well worth it, as the place is
probably the second best abandoned building I have explored after City
Power. It is certainly a lot bigger than City Power but less action packed.
I suppose if I had more time to explore it, I would have enjoyed it more.
Sadly the building is all but gone now.
29th
January 2002
Copied news from
2001 to here: 2001 News
Explored some great
industrial landscape under one of the newer
freeways of the city
Absalom
Drain was explored in 2001, I've finally gotten around to adding it to
the site
A couple of fun
nights messing around with explosives.
15th
January 2002
Fixed links to
the drain driving videos
Updated the main
Bridge rooms page to give preview images
of the bridges. Also updated the D4 bridge room page
to show images taken a while back that I forgot to link to the page.
Updated the Buildings
page to include preview images and links to some of the newer abandoned
buildings I have explored.
Updated the Bunkers
main page to include links to new pages on Anzac
and Chowder Bay bunkers
Updated the Transit
page to add some links to pages not previously linked from there and add
preview images.
5th
January 2002
Added some more
links. Still adding more and checking others.
Added some advice
of what to do if you encounter police or security
guards when exploring. They have not been a problem for me, but this is
due to taking the right approach.
Some stuff on the
history of Urban Exploration.
All pages have
had their copyright warning automatically updated to include 2002.
News
for 2001 is here
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