Imagine sitting behind a computer, ready to download some music for you iPod Touch (finally) and to view the pictures you shot earlier this week. Now imagine having to use Windows Vista with a sattelite internet connection, with a speed of a blazing 65 kilobytes per second. If you thought it couldn’t get worse, try downloading iTunes as well. All this makes me miss the modern world (and my Macbook) even more.

Anyways, other than trying to download some music I’ve also took some lovely shots of birds, crashed cars, killer whales (the real ones) and a bunch of other things. So far one of my best pictures is a photo of a hummingbird sitting on a feeder. Ofcourse, as with every location I visit I had to find some abandoned buildings to explore, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a gold mine. 3 buildings : A school, a fish factory (now used to store fishing nets) and an old house (full of asbestos :D).

The School

The school was probably one of the best locations, the building dated back to 1929 but was abandoned somewhere around 1985. Since then it had been used as a lawyers office (if I’m correct). In 2009 the building was abandonded again for some reason. The weird thing was that some rooms were relatively new, whereas others were in a really bad state. One of the best rooms is the office on the second floor. Everything was still in there, computers, documents and even photographs of two children. What made the location so great was that even though it had been visited before (a lot of writings on the wall said “XXX was here XXX/09”) it wasn’t damaged by vandals (other than the writings).

The Fish Factory

Not really a factory, more of a processing plant. The building was relatively small and there wasn’t that much to see, other than a lot of fishing nets and a lot of writings on the wall. It was more of an exercise rather than a real exploration.

The Abandonded House

The basement of this house was filled with asbestos (somebody was so kind to paint asbestos containing materials pink) and the upper levels didn’t had any furniture left. The only interesting was a sign saying “Locked out. The owner sent us home!” and a bunch of camping chairs.

Photos of my holidays (and the Urbex locations) will be posted once I get back.