The Mystery Machine

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Any thoughts on what this might be? Better yet, any ideas what it was used for? I will offer hints in later postings.

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Midnight Explorations in the North - Cobalt

IMG_1895, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Does this look haunted, it should do, its an old abandoned headframe that I visited one night. It is too unstable to enter. The internal beams have been rotting away for the last 100 years, the tin peels off like flaking skin.
This is one of the first structures that you see as [...]

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Filthy Crawl in Ontario Cave

IMG_3172, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Having become distracted by other easier options near the Main Hell Hole I made my own exploration while the others enjoyed the conversation in the forest above.
I took this somewhat "evil" portrait holding Greg's maglight in a narrow crevice that led down to an ice cave. It looks like porcupines live [...]

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Abandoned Silver Mine in Northern Ontario

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Early one morning while wandering along the shores of Long Lake I had come across this interesting old tunnel. It cuts into the rock beneath Nippising Hill across from the town of Cobalt. The silver followed calcite seams all along the outer edge of the geological formation known as, "The Cobalt [...]

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Costa Rican Fruit Vendor

P0000124, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
The country's natural bounty hangs heavily on the trees. High along a mountain pass, atop precipitous ridges thick with coffee bushes our "tourismo" taxi sped at horrifying speed. The radio blasted out a lilting Peruvian flute melody and I was reminded of the visit "Scarface" made to "Sousa" in some similarly [...]

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