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…

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* “Echoes” was a side long track on the original Meddle vinyl album. It is often called Pink Floyd’s greatest, single track.