Now please enjoy some more of the Camden Park sky chair ride. And something you might not have expected coming right after it finishes ...
Looking south while on the chair ride. You can maybe see the pond and the Tilt-a-Whirl in the distance.
Another picture where you can see the pond, as well as the log flume's two hills.
Looking straight ahead you get the golf course underneath and in the distance on the right the Li'l Dipper.
Looking down on the miniature golf course. You can see one hole with the astroturf torn up. Those obstructions on the hole underneath should make it possible for you to calculate the time of day this picture was taken. Do that and I'll tell you how close you are.
Here's a good view of several golf holes, plus the petting zoo, and Li'l Dipper in the distance.
On the left is the Mound Builder Pavilion. You can't actually see the Adena Mound in this picture ... I think ... but you can see I'm getting near the end of the ride here.
Again looking out on the miniature golf course, the petting zoo, and the Li'l Dipper, with the log flume in the distance.
And back on the ground! Here's the main wheel for reversing the direction of chairs.
Here I've stepped away from the ride. The big 'IN' there is for the train ride. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger wasn't finished with her walk --- though I happened to catch up with her at this point --- so I went for another ride on the chair here.
This time around you can see the poles a little better. They seem not to have been painted in a while. You also get a nice view of my own shadow. And you might see that there's one person in the Mound Builders Pavilion, eating and reading their phone.
Couple people on the ride coming back the other way.
Looking straight down, here. So please enjoy imagining that I'm a giant trying to tread carefully on the park below. I believe that is my own shadow on the upper edge of the picture so please use that to compute how high up the ride is.
Trivia: Detroit's Hudson Department Store had a 102 foot by 205 foot American flag, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest flag in the world. Stars were 5 ½ feet wide, with stripes eight feet wide; it weighed 1500 pounds and needed 6,240 feet of nylon rope to support. Source: The Grand Emporiums: The Illustrated History of America's Great Department Stores, Robert Hendrickson. I don't know what became of the flag since Hudson's, you know, turned into Target.
Currently Reading: Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman.
