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We are drawing nearer the end of the day at Camden Park, in my photo roll. Please enjoy the visual evidence of our looking around for the last things to do there.
Here we are in motion! Riding the carousel's chariot and taking a photo showing the movement outside. You can see the scenic ... highway billboard and the power tower. I mean the electrical service thing, not the fun ride.
Further along the ride we're going past the kiddie spaceships ride. Note how we're far enough into the day that the back of the chariot is heavily shaded here where it wasn't before.
And there's the chariot we rode, a person riding with a dog and looking over the ocean, which this is nowhere near.
Tracks of the miniature train, for another look around.
Here's the train at rest and possibly shut down for the night. Also dig those tree colors in the background.
There's the Li'l Dipper waiting for the last riders of the day. There is an operator still in the station. I don't know if the log flume is still running.
This is the main midway, such as it is. On the left is the main food and drink stand --- we got a souvenir cup --- and on the right the gift shop that had that plush buffalo. The carousel is in the distance.
And here's a view with the gift shop on the left, the ice cream stand on the right, and somewhere past that ... uh ... pavilions or something.
Look at what a majestically clear sky that is over The Big Dipper. This is why it was so hot the whole day, and whole visit, but it's beautiful.
Last-hour-of-the-day picture of the Hawnted House. The line's accumulating while the operator is off taking care of something or other.
The carousel building, and its main entrance. Sure hope they don't ever have to take the mechanism out of there. (I kid; very likely it at least in theory could be taken apart into units that two or three people could transport.)
And here's a look from outside the carousel west, toward the Paratroopers, Slingshot, and in the far distance, that Discovery Center museum building that was closed.
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bunnyhugger's official 300th unique roller coaster. Ride operator's confident the brakes are on.
And there's the end of the train, which is also a good ride but I think the front had the edge here.
Trivia: The number of Jewish people in Germany grew from 1945 to 1946, largely as surviving Eastern European Jewish people, including a hundred thousand from Poland, fled to the American and the British Occupation Zones. Source: Germany 1945: From War to Peace, Richard Bessel.
Currently Reading: Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman.
