Brickwork
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the Fort is still deserted today, aside from the Park Service...the snorkeling is pretty good, as is the history...but for photographers (at least me) what was remarkable was just the geometry of the place - the old passageways where the (snow-like) white sand has drifted in over the past century ...
This area is really neglected, with the factory walls covered in graffiti and Buddleia left growing from the most unlikely places in amongst the brickwork. In time it'll break it apart as it grows.
But I love it and recently I took a walk with my partners' two Retrievers through town and several of the outlying villages. It was just the kind of day to keep on walking, so we did and what great company they were!
Oski, the older of the two stopped about 15 times on the way back, refusing to move, but later on I encouraged him to only take short breathers before walking on and it was as though he heard and understood me!
When we got home I traced our route on Google maps and found that we'd walked for 12 miles.
An old brickworks that hides many a secret and where everything is still in its place as it was left.
The old Vegetable Store - accessed from the kitchens and with a little courtyard between it and the main Hall (where possibly deliveries were made to the kitchens). Its ventilated and pitched roof design is designed to draw warm air up and keep the interior cool. It is part of the 1874 builiding phase for the Hall by Thomas Wyatt.