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Tropical ruin expolre

This is a pretty cool thread - I could spend hours there exploring around. Thanks for sharing the pics.
 
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I made a flatband slingshot last night, slingshot is good for where firearms are not allowed.

[QUOTEIs the knife/spear a Cold Steel Bushman or handmade?? ][/QUOTE] -handmade !

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Digging creek surface to find water.

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Discover "Bang-sha"(Soldier's bunk)!

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take close look

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Sleep area where use to have a arised wooden floor (bed)

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celling

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central hearth (Japanese called irori)
 
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irori close look

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where to rest you rifle

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modern day photo

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roof beam structure

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wall panel

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Shellflower - wild edible or add flover in food

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Alpinia speciosa also called Shellflower
 
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Taro - wild edible

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light shower

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Found a man made earth barrier- it use to block the expolsion force which came out form the munition stroage warehouse front door when on fire.

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munition stroage warehouse behind the earth barrier and next to hill.

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Boundary marker- engraved with Kanji word- "Army Camp Ground"
 
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lab time

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step to tower

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tower view from other hill

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machine gun bunker on bottom of the tower

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leak time

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view on the tower see blew - man height grass , very wet in the moring- water source!

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these are great pictures! Is this in Okinawa? I really like the pictures of the plants. It is so neat to see the other types of plants living in other hemispheres, in similar habitats to what we have been in.
 
Taiwanese city 高雄 is read Takao in Japanese, which is written in the OP.

Yep! it's in Taiwan.

The location is in old word 高雄州鳳山郡鳥松庄十九湾村;)
 
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