Re-created path to the pool
And I think that concludes my small land purchases for a time!
East of Yeot, 03 (Upper Meddletown?) May 27, 2010
Shortly past the Caeshu stream mentioned in the previous post, Baker is lured off the road in Salgu by the entrace to a beautiful park-like area called Syke’s Woods, owned by the Heart Song group. Ooooh, Karoz is finding out now that one of the 3 members has a last name of Sapphire. Might they could they be related to you-know-who?
Owned by the same group is this largish, sphere enclosed area called the Living Light Temple, it appears, complete with a druid’s circle at its center The About Land tab states it is, “a place of meditation and contemplation for all spiritual paths, with serene streamed music.”
Now just to give you some relative perspective, the temple sits about 200 meters directly south of the Gallery in the Park sculpture garden mentioned in the “East of Yeot, 01” post from a couple of days ago. Hucka D. is now claiming this galley roughly marks the northern limit of the ancient site of Meddletown, which makes the temple Karoz is presently standing in the center of as well within its boundaries. Was some version of this temple standing before it on the same location? Was the present temple built directly atop the older version, perhaps even incorporating some of its designs and even material, like the Stonehenge type rocks?
Below is an aerial view of some of the scenery north of the temple. The Gallery at the Park region can just be seen over the towers of the castle to the left.
Details of an island in an aquamarine blue lagoon partially visible on the right hand side of the above photo.
Details of an island in an aquamarine blue lagoon partially visible on the right hand side of the above photo.
Still in Gimchi, home sim of everything pictured in this particular blog post so far, is this rather remarkable scene of a glowing red ferris wheel and lighthouse towering above a grove of palms, with sculpted rocks in the foreground. Baker is only a stone’s throw from the west coast of Jeogeot now…
… and here he’s on the coast itself, complete with rocks and crashing waves. In the meantime, Baker has entered Omurice directly south of Gimchi.
Before leaving the area for the night, Baker teleports back in the Gimchi to explore an interesting ravine stretching out in some length between the Living Light Temple and ferris wheel/lighthouse beach. He looks up from the bottom of the ravine toward two objects perched on its lip, that seem to complement one another. Karoz is unable to find these objects today, so I’ll have to leave more speculation about their meaning, along with the ravine as a whole, for another day when there’s more light available.
East of Yeot, 02
The next day I sent a biking Baker in the general direction of Meddletown yet again, hoping to plumb more of its mysteries. Pretty trees on a hill to the south of the route, not far from Yeot. On private land, though.
And the Mandu located apartment complex I devoted most of this 5/18 post to is already gone, just like that. In fact, the whole sim is now up for sale for a measly 275,000 lindens, or a bit over a *1000* US dollars. It sounds like a lot to me too, but in checking it’s “only” 4.6 lindens per square meter, which is not really that unreasonable for some locations.
Really nice views from Route 9 in this area, like this sunset scene with Baker looking back toward Yeot.
A club called The Factory along the way. This is the same parcel in Dacham that has the empty, derelict skyscrapers also featured in this earlier post..
Baker was unable to discern exactly what kind of music is played here; the place seems largely vacant save for the dance floor itself. Maybe there’s more stuff, unseen, going on up in the sky somewhere.
A stream Baker crosses in Caeshu, a sim caddycorner to Dachum to its southwest. In-between the 2 sims, Route 9 passes through a small part of Doomaekkot (southwest corner) as well.
This is an interesting stream to me: the small 144 sq. meter parcel to the front of the biking Baker below describes a bit of its history, with the name of the parcel reading, “Come see what a creative Mole did with a found ‘stream’!^_^”, and the description stating, “This is the last survivor of a series of stream/channels that separated small parcels in most of Caeshu.”
Baker detaches his bike and sits on a provided bench underneath the bridge. A spider keeps him company…
… along with a catfish that looks suspiciously like a pint-size version of his Ol’ Granny back in Yeot.
As Karoz is checking behind Baker Bloch today once more, he finds a frog beside a mushroom underneath the bench as well, along with a nearby seagull perched on some rocks. Quite cool.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caeshu/173/63/38
Karoz is estimating the length of the stream at about 60 meters, with the source just beyond the catfish looking from Baker’s direction.
East of Yeot, 01
Hucka Doobie himself in Eunhaeng, in a skybox about 300 meter up, just north of the mysteriously paired treehouse and farmhouse mentioned a number of times already in this blog. The skies are more his home than the ground these days, what little he gets out and about in his SL avatar form any more.
Can you spot the silhouetted Baker Bloch and his trademark hat in the photo below? Time’s up!
On Route 9 heading east, and glancing back across a neighbor’s parcel toward the top of the gray Edwardston Station Gallery.
A short and scenic bit of peddling takes him to this change of road texture in Dacham from rock to pavement.
Derelict Dacham skyscrapers next to the road texture change. Seem empty and boarded up.
Baker attempts to use his intuition to re-find the Meddle owned property first discovered the night before, but leaves Route 9 heading for Jeogeot’s western coastline far north of where he needed to effect a direct beeline to the place. Instead he comes across a gallery called simply “Art in the Park”, which I don’t think he’s visited before, although I’ve attempted to send him now to all “official” galleries on the continent as a whole, which this one is. Very nice, although I don’t think a couple of the sculptures in the picture below have rezzed in yet.
Baker pauses to ask directions from 2 avatars who seem to be quite engaged in a conversation, but then realizes it’s only more sculptures. He decides to take a picture to remember the humorous mistake by. And as Karoz is rechecking today, he finds out that these are actually representations of 2 bugs, one proposing to the other. Baker totally missed that aspect during his brief visit with them. How unobservant! (typical, though)
South of Yeot, 02 May 26, 2010
Also on the same night as finding the potential, lost site of Meddletown, Baker just teleports to an interesting looking depression using terrain view on his map, and finds he has landed underneath a large, rock cave also spotted off Route 10 a couple of nights before.
The cave turned out to be larger and more complicated than he had previously suspected. Lucky teleport once more!
Another one of those wells also found north of Yeot on another night. Baker now understands that the well is Linden made, and is used here to decorate abandoned land. It probably served the same function in the other place he saw one of these.
Nearby multicolored pool. Baker can’t tell if the pool is polluted or just naturally rainbow colored like this. Land it’s on is called “Pan’s Lab”; really, I only mention it because the pool is fairly close to Yeot, only a couple of sims south in Hwang.
In Myeon now, just over the northern border of Hwang, lies this interesting but fairly expensive rental with a roadway to the immediate west bordering more wasteland type area. That’s what is called an “Old Hand Cart” on the road in front of Baker, owned by the same avatar offering the rental to his right in the picture.
Southeast of Yeot (Meddletown??)
In just teleporting randomly around the general area of Yeot the other night, quickly came across this interesting beach area on the west side of Jeogeot. I believe this was, in fact, my first random teleportation of the night, just using terrain view to spot interesting depressions, cliffs, and so on.
Interesting underwater pod, giving a limited view of the surrounding ocean and some sea life within. In checking behind Baker today, Karoz believes it to be a representation of a black pearl, although the actual description of the object is blank. Pretty nice; a bit different, at least for me.
It took me a minute or 2, but it finally sunk in that this is a Pink Floyd themed parcel. In checking the About Land tab, found the property, called “Pink Floyd Echoes”, was additionally owned by a group called “Meddle”.* I immediately thought of Hucka D.’s mention of a mythical Meddletown on Yd Island. Could *this* instead be the ancient site of Meddletown? As I continued to walk and explore the area, this realization began to grow and be nurtured from other directions.
Below is a replication on the south side of the long island of a factory off the cover of their 1977 album, Animals, most famous for its flying pig.
When I first teleported in, the texture of this large poster hadn’t rezzed in yet, and I just thought: “Great: wallscreen clutter.” But it turned out to contain a montage of Pink Floyd related images, which made it suddenly A-OK.
The island is almost cut into 2 islands by a channel about 1/2way up its length, but not quite. Those plants are non-phantom for some reason, making further progress up the island more difficult than it should be.
Cool… as Karoz is walking the area now, he is able to take a free copy of the plant, called “Sara Nerd Tropical Tree/Plant 1,” a 3 prim affair.
Just to note, the water just in front of Baker Bloch in the below picture is Linden owned, and dotted with an interesting matrix of ferns (ferns?).
Beyond the upper end of the island is a centerpiece lighthouse, displaying on its side one of the numerous images from Pink Floyd’s movie The Wall found in various guises around the property. Near the top is a rotating, multicolored heartbeat line taken from the inner sleeve of the Dark Side of the Moon album, and the circular top of the light itself is an image from the Wish You Were Here album.
Dark Side of the Moon is debatably the most famous album in all of rock annals. In fact, another slightly less mentioned candidate for that distinguish title is Floyd’s The Wall, and the two albums are often grouped together in lists of all time top 5 or top 10 albums. Wish You Were Here, the album released after Dark Side of the Moon by the group, often makes top album lists as well. But, as I said, probably their best individual *track* is “Echoes” from the album before Dark Side of the Moon.
The property below “Pink Floyd’s Echoes” is called “Makebelieve”. I believe Hucka D. has connected the name Makemake with Meddletown in the past. Hafta check the details, though — one of those “adding to the stream” ideas building, possibly, to the full realization that, yes, this is the actual site of his Meddletown.
And to complete, there’s also an open front store near the lighthouse stocked with various Pink Floyd related paraphenalia such as furniture, t-shirts, jewelry, even Pink Floyd eye textures.
But I’ll be returning to this area again soon enough to recheck all this and fill in the picture more. In fact, I sent Baker Bloch back the next night…
*****
* “Echoes” was a side long track on the original Meddle vinyl album. It is often called Pink Floyd’s greatest, single track.
North of Yeot, 03 May 23, 2010
Heading northeast again from my Yeot property. This snapshot comes from the southwest corner of Bun Shik just north of Yeot, as Baker rounds the top of Floaty Pool (*must* get better name for this pool I rent part of!). He’s heading toward the south end of the long bay northeast of Yeot again, as he did, for example, in this earlier post.
Baker looks back at Floaty Pool from basically the same spot as above.
I thought I’d throw in a snapshot of this nice little shop on the west side of Yeosol (which Hucka D. claims is some kind of ancient rival sim to Yeot, whatever that really means and fwiw). The island it is on, a bit under 6000 square meters, is called Luv’s Small Island, and the shop itself Luv’s Freebie Shop. Tastefully done; there’s also another small store on the property selling very reasonably priced, various kinds of goods.
Next door to Luv’s Small Island is the Bliss Estates Movie Theatre, also in Yeosol and offering an, ahem, interesting and large array of movies to say the least. More interesting to Baker (and checker Karoz) is the attached Keylime Room complete with glass floor aquarium that allows one to look down to the bottom of the bay and a colorful assortment of sea life. There are also a number of stilt house rentals available on the same Yeosol property, as well as a small bar called Cuban Mojitos and a deck with a performance area. Have to come back sometime when a concert is being held.
Oh, and as Karoz continues to check around the area, he sees that the White SandsVIP Private Beach already explored by Baker Bloch a bit, as described here, is also part of Bliss Estates, although it is located in the Gongduk sim to the north of Yeosol.
Moving now to a place considerably north of even Gongduk, we come to a rather amazing find called Stone Point Park. This is a place I have a feeling I’ll be coming back to a number of times, through Baker and Karoz I mean. The park occupies the majority of the Dotbyeut sim, with a large offering of recreational opportunities. The headquarters of the park is here.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dotbyeul/140/126/60
I’ll get back to this picture soon. 🙂
There was simply too much going on there for Baker to take in that day, so he had to settle for flying around the park a bit. Below he sits at a table inside an English-style garden called “Downy’s Down”. Splendid location.
And low and behold, Baker finds yet another fairly large park right next to Stone Point Park called Noonkkot Park, about 1/2 the size of its larger, western neighbor. The About Land description reads, “A pleasant place for furry critters and friends to frolic.”
It’s a much sparser environment, which is a nice contrast actually. The centerpiece of the park appears to be a queerly shaped lake with a number of peculiar objects situated in its shallow waters, like, for instance, 2 movie theater seats.
From another night, this was the northernmost point along the east side of the bay that Baker reached. This is about 2/3rds the way up the same bay which begins in Yeosol and extends upwards all the way to Stone Point Park about a mile north of Yeosol. Little did Baker know this night that beyond this point and extending north, this side of the bay turns into a kind of huge nature reserve, in effect. Very interesting. I will return!
North of Yeot, 02
Baker bikes past the the lower of the only 2 structures in Eunhaeng, a place visited this past winter and talked about in this post a bit, and also this post. He didn’t linger long…
… but decided to instead focus on the more mountainous areas above the flat, Eunhaeng wasteland, as he is prone to call it these days. While there he *somewhere* found this sideways arcade building, and wisely took a copy of it before leaving the scene. Despite their best efforts, none of the Baker family has been able to refind this location, although I, their user, could swear it was just north of the wasteland. I suppose there’s a good chance, then, that it has been deleted, since it was positioned atop 2 parcels, and obviously represented landscape “junk”.
Coming back into the wasteland area from the north, Baker poses with a friendly dog named Bumpz found in Solchan, just over the northern line of Eunhaeng on a plot called “Sally’s Originals.” a small shop selling original clothes, flexi skirts, gowns, dress, beachwear, and bikinis according to the land description.
Very nearby indeed is the abandoned treehouse of Eunhaeng, twinned in nature with the nearby farmhouse as explained before. The wooden tower structure to the right is instead in Solchan. The top platform of the tower, as Karoz is now reminded in flying up there himself, affords one a very nice view of the nearby treehouse as well as the Eunhaeng wasteland as a whole.
Running across the wasteland area north of Eunhaeng toward the lower section of the mountain range that runs almost to the northern tip of the continent from here, it seems.
By this time, Baker is making his first stab at refinding the sideways arcade building, which he remembers being somewhere just north of the Eunhaeng wastelands as stated previously. In his seach, he recrosses paths with this old, rusted truck and tip-down missle. Actually I believe there are 2 such upside down missles in the immediate vicinity.
South of Yeot, 01 May 22, 2010
Some of the exploring featured in this particular post overlaps territory covered by Baker in this earlier post. Basically I just decided to send Ol’ Biking Baker south on Route 10 to take some photos this night. Route 10 intersects Route 9 in Yeot, very near the southern end of my rentals there.
Uh oh, one of those crazy Linden touring cars you see with some frequency on the Jeogeot highways these days. Baker braces for a possible head on collision, but the car, although still wobbly, remains in its lane. Half the time they’re driving off to one side of the road and not on it, though. A work in progress I suppose. Great idea!
Nice, smallish Linden owned park in Seopophang (I assume the locals shorten it to something like “Seo”). Nice place to kick back and watch the crazy ass Linden touring cars come by now and then, hehe.
Also in this bottomland, not far at all from the above pictured park, Baker is surprised to find a “Welcome to Chilbo!” banner way out in the northwest corner of Gangwon. True, Route 10 eventually passes through the heart of Chilbo, but from here it is several miles south still. Good for Chilbo!
Unnatural grass (non-Linden). Quite thick, but takes some time for the textures to rez in.
Baker decides to head west off the highway to make his way back to Yeot, traveling across some of that same high, flat plateau area he visited a couple of nights before. Very empty for the most part.
Isolated patch of plants Baker also spotted on his last trip to this area.
North of Yeot Chatting… May 20, 2010
“North of Yeot seems quite pretty, Hucka D. More pleasing for some reason than the Wild Wild West of Sunklands. Er…”
Hucka D.:
It is older. VILE was a star in those days. He got loose then like he did tonight.
bb:
I touched *her* and activated her roaming abilities. She moved really quick all the way up the hill to the House of Truth. Then I tried it again and she shot off, straight up a mountain, in the other direction (!)
Hucka D.:
We will take this development nice and slow. Savoring.
bb:
So it looks like I’m staying in Yeot. Maybe for a number of months. How long, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
5 months. Then you will go to the Corsica continent.
bb:
Humph. Well, you never know. It was only 1 year ago that I moved to Jeogeot. Before I had never even hardly been to the place.
Hucka D.:
Jeogeot is home now. Not Chilbo, not Sunklands. The continent itself.
bb:
But maybe Sunklands more than anywhere still.
Hucka D.:
Maybe. Opportunities will arise.
bb:
More to the reader or readers here, Hucka D.: a return to Aotearoa is not an option now. My old land that was up for rent right when I moved to Yeot is now taken. So no going back there for a while.
Hucka D.:
But as I said, Yeot is Aotearoa anyway. It all goes in a Big Circle.
bb:
I’m heading to the Gray Rock area [in rl] again tomorrow, Hucka D. Sit on the “Rock of Truth”.
Hucka D.:
Take your toys and chalk. And complete your related blog posts sometime.
bb:
Right. I will. (pause) I’m creating a “Baker Bloch in England” series for the Tower of TILE, Hucka D. But I know you know about that.
Hucka D.:
I am a star as well (smiles).
bb:
It’s a lot of fun. First animated collages [as well]. How’s the King doing?
Hucka D.:
He’s in the basement still. Subterranean. The Queen interprets. She draws pictures.
bb:
The crop circles, you mean.
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
Do Baker Blinker and The Queen still play croquet?
Hucka D.:
Yes?
bb:
OK, are you still a bee in England, Hucka D.? Are you Hucka Doobie The Bee again?
Hucka D.:
Yes. I am like your bees now [again]. I am the air force to VILE’s navy.
bb:
At what point did VILE become TILE?
Hucka D.:
Very good question to ask tonight [but he doesn’t answer it].
bb:
Well?
Hucka D.:
[no answer]
bb:
Looks like that may be it.
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