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Sorry, I spent the whole day cleaning stuff out for the big floor job this week, and plus it's Sunday and I always just do photographs for that anyway. So here goes, from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk:
Returning to the carousel; here's a picture showing the styling of the building and the picture above the entrance.
Here's one of the steel rings, held back so you could see what it looks like. It's greasier than its counterparts at Knoebels or Gillian's Wonderland Pier, I assume because the more-automated system needs the lubrication.
Oh look, the roof is smiling at the ride!
And now for another ride on the Giant Dipper. The safety instruction video is hosted by this anthropomorphized-hastily MyBoardwalk Play Card, and the whole thing looks like this.
Oh, got a glimpse of one of the cavemen on the sky ride!
Looking through the crown of the loading station at what sure looks like a smile in the coaster.
The clouds don't look very happy, but they held off doing anything untoward while the lights got going.
In the background you can see the lift hill of Giant Dipper lit up.
Ooh, spooky! The owl statue is there to scare off easily impressed minor birds.
Going back around for night rides. The park closed its rides about 9 pm which was barely sunset; unfortunately, we could only have stayed and ridden later if we'd been there the 4th of July instead.
Lift hill seen from the crown around the loading station. Also I am pretty sure that's not the brake lever there, just a broom.
Giant Dipper train warping back into the station.
Trivia: Nogi, in Mackinac County, Michigan, was founded in 1905 as a logging camp and sawmill for the Central Paper Company of Muskegon; after about twenty years it was destroyed by forest fires. It was named for Count Maresuke Nogi, Japanese hero of the Russo-Japanese War. Source: Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities, Walter Romig.
Currently Reading: Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog, Walt Kelly.
PS: Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 6: Junior Gets A Job, a showcase for Bluto's complex personality, right?
