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This was a sad adventure. Having explored this old Aquarina before, we saw amazing and mysterious wonders: an abandoned stone cable-car port full of echoes and vines, a sunken submarine mermaid theater with Venus clamshell at the bottom of the bay, a sky-lift ride that sang in the wind and was full of angsty teen graffiti, a once-chintzy covered bridge that had accumulated coolness and lichen growth since the 70s, and some kind of long-abandoned animal enclosure that had been taken over by nesting buzzards… If ever there were a magical place, this was it.

But progress moves on. Six months or so later we return to find half of it leveled, and the other half barb-wired off as bulldozers and backhoes prepare for its ultimate destruction. We visited what was left to get to, and were glad we had the chance to experience this place in its finest, derelict, form.

Little kits that let you build an impractical wooden flashlight… it’s a soulderless simple circuit you can put together using only wood glue. Someone suggested “Victorian Flashlights”; I thought about “hipster flashlights”, but whatever they’re called people seem to really like them (especially chicks). I’m thinking of reinvigorating my etsy store and selling these kits online (as well as more complex kits that are in the works!).