Seven Days in Saskatchewan

Thursday

Approximate Distance Travelled: 60km
Cruisin' around Regina, literally in a circle. Checked out the environmental disaster of an industrial complex to the north, where (no joke) your kids can use the waterslide park located right beside to the steel mill. Finally found things to do, and met Cor726 for some evening shenanigans.

 

Sunlight streams through the jagged hole ripped through the metal wall. The floor, piled with mounds of broken concrete, is layered with old hay embossed by hundreds of hoofprints.

 

Looking up, I exclaimed in shock. Overhead hung a gigantic metal scoop, suspended by cables from a massive crane that spanned the width of the building. Next to it was the enclosed operator's booth, and I soon found myself sitting in the driver's seat, my hands on the control sticks.

 

The sheet metal clanked and bent under my feet as I walked across the roof. I wandered through a veritable forest of trusses that stretched end to end high inside the building. The drop off the edge was frightening, the black, deep water flooding the floor below silently menacing.

 

We found the entrance to an enclosed gangway, and climbed the ramp to the top. The floor was made of solid wooden planks, and there was a strange lack of any conveyor machinery. We entered the large building at a height most precarious, carefully avoiding the large hole in the floor that appeared without warning.