Here we go 'round again
Big event today. No time to talk about it. Please enjoy pictures of Camden Park instead.
Here's what it looks like when the Big Dipper rumbles past that spot I'd been.
Next cycle or so on the Big Dipper, so you get a look at the front of the train in motion.
And a Big Dipper ride's come to its end. Someone up front is looking excited.
North of the roller coaster are these attractions. The Rattler, foreground, is a disk'o ride; past that is Slingshot, a 14-foot-tall spinning coaster; past that, the Paratrooper ride; and in the distance, the carousel.
Here I finally remembered I should take a picture of the hand stamp I got from going out to the car. It's just a 'CP' in a square. If I'd been sharp I would have got the picture when the stamp was new and fresh and before my thumb had fallen off.
Here's the Paratrooper ride in action.
Hawnted House in the last minutes of sunlight before the shadows of Big Dipper cover it.
Another look at some of the art on Hawnted House, particularly the Audrey II monster plant off to the side. You can sort of se the artist's signature here too.
And there's the art for the lift hill and the one big drip the ride has, with more Audrey II's.
Train just left on Big Dipper here.
Big Dipper ride operators and the levers that control the brakes, plus the sun in the distance. What's more to photograph?
Looking into the setting sun as they get ready for the train's return.
Trivia: During James Garfield's long incapacity after he was shot, legal figures argued whether Chester Alan Arthur had the power to assume the presidency; one leading theory was that the inability clause (that a Vice-President took over for a President unable to do their duties) only covered mental incapacity (and Garfield was, at the time, having hallucinations.); others, that it could be any case in which the President could not discharge some duty. Many argued that the inability must be one that would be permanent and extend through the whole presidential term. Source: The Year We Had No President, Richard Hansen.
Currently Reading: Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman.