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Today we went on a little trip, camera
in hand to Skaggs Island. Originally, we planned to go there to see an
abandoned base that my friend had been to before. He said it was pretty
cool, and that there were confidential documents from the 60s still in
filing cabinets. Why he didn't take them, I don't know. Our Skaggs Island
trip didn't go as planned however. We first came there and the gate was
closed. We squeezed past the gate and had a look at the filthy little booth
just beyond the gate.
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Then we decided to leave, because out in the distance, we saw some people
outside a white SUV. From the distance we were at, we couldn't tell if it
was a police or sheriff SUV or what, so we decided to play it safe and come
back another time, probably at night.
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So, unfortunately, we had to call it quits for Skaggs Island, but all was
not lost. Just a few miles away, was Mare Island, CA.
Mare Island used to be a naval base. The place is huge. You would never know
it was an island unless you saw the big bridge. There's about 2,000
abandoned buildings at this place. Almost all are locked, but we did what we
could. We first came to this sort of dilapidated building. We couldn't get
in, so I went up and took pictures as close as I could to the windows to see
the inside.
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That second to last one with the cop, they circled around us a few times
looking at us. I felt like a terrorist.
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We then came to an abandoned group of apartments, which I guess were housing
for the people who worked on the island back when it was up and running.
This place is just to your right as your coming to the island from the
bridge.
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We found an unlocked storage closet on the second floor! Alas, empty.
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We walked by all the apartments when we saw a window that was partly open.
We reached in and unlocked the door and made entry into one of the spartan,
barren apartments.
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The apartment was connected to the next door apartment via a door in the
bathroom. Having left the apartment complex, we drove around more until we
reached a gigantic crane. And, being the idiots we were, we actually CLIMBED
ALL THE WAY UP IT and went inside. Talk about a scary climb, too.
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We saw some people in a nearby parking lot staring at us climbing, so we
decided to get down, and we saw a barge which was for carrying huge-ass ship
parts, which were laying all around the place. Note the name of the ship.
Then, we saw an electrified fence, and I was brutally electrocuted with
100,000 volts. Then I parked my luxurious '89 T-Bird under this thing. It
looked like a car wash. But it clearly was not.
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Then we came to what I thought was the coolest, the drydocks (I'm pretty
sure thats what they are) of Mare Island. The pictures really can't do them
justice as to how huge and deep they are. I got vertigo looking down into
them. I would love to have seen it in action, its an engineering marvel!
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So, finally we were done with Mare Island, and, determined to return to
Skaggs Island at a later time, we drove home but not before stopping by the
palacial campus of Solano Community College, to see the old fighter jet that
was there. Don't ask me how it got there, or why it was there. However,
someone please tell me what kind of plane it is. I'm not the wife beating
military junkie-type.
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