After going on an extensive exploration tour on my wife's birthday in May 2020, we also took a short trip to a deserted place on my birthday. But this time there were also a few huskies with us! As the CoViD rules in force at the time meant that you were only allowed to travel to another federal state with a valid reason - for example because of work - we had been given a work assignment for our vacation. Two of our friend Ebby's huskies had recently passed their breeding tests, so he had officially commissioned us to take a few photos of them.
We wanted to take these photos on my birthday, and we thought that the remains of the abandoned mineral oil plant would make a nice backdrop. The route there is quite short, so we were only on the road for about 20 minutes. The site is freely accessible and offers a few nice motifs: there are still many oil tanks of various sizes and the former pump house to be discovered.
From our parking lot, we walked out onto the grounds with the two dogs and looked around for suitable scenery to set the stage for the dogs.
After we had taken some pictures of the dogs, we took them for a short walk around the grounds before heading home, as it was very warm that day and we were out in the midday sun, which would have been too exhausting for the huskies in the long run.
Birthe and I took advantage of the good weather and drove straight back to the industrial ruin shortly after arriving at the husky farm to explore the grounds extensively.
Surprisingly, the site is not only freely accessible, but the tanks can also be climbed. Some have an external staircase, others have the maintenance ladder inside. As you never know exactly how the condition and stability of metal changes over the years, I was extremely careful, but was still terrified that something might go wrong. In the end, everything went well and I got some nice pictures.
After exploring the tank site, we got back in the car to drive back, but then spotted another building that we hadn't explored yet...but that's in the next post!
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