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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 31, 2010 11:03:06 GMT 8
‘Steve and Marcia on The Rock’ have announced on their news letter that C1 is cleared. They wrote this and provided this image of C1 cleared: “One of the first things that we visited upon our return to Corregidor was the primary command post of Fort Mills. Its location gave it full visibility of any ships coming into Manila Bay. It is located on the south part of the head of the island, near Battery Wheeler. Quite some time ago Paul Whitman, founder and webmaster of www.corregidor.org, suggested that it would be nice to be able to see what the lookouts could see, but jungle growth had obscured the view. While we were in the States a number of security personnel on their off-duty time cleared some of the scrub brush from the view line, as well as clearing the top of the command post itself. You can now see why the command post was located there, with a good view from Fort Drum (the “Concrete Battleship”) to the left across to the very tip of Bataan on the right. This is a location that we love to show to visitors, but because of its remote location it is only seen by a handful of guests a year“. Steve and Macia also have this blog: www.steveandmarciaontherock.blogspot.com/[img src=" "]
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Post by EXO on Aug 31, 2010 13:36:02 GMT 8
The photo by Steve Kwiecinski* goes to show how this long-hidden facility has probably the best view from Corregidor, and to its sides, of Corregidor.
I am not sorry I nagged all those years!
Thanks Steve for the great photo. Thanks Karl for posting it.
The pathway there is one of the best "short-walk" features of the island - the Three Hour Tourists don't know what they're missing!
Though now we have any single one of Fots' series of exceptional views to tell them they should have stayed longer! Maybe there's room for an article - "Corregidor - What You Didn't See on the Three Hour Tour."
* How come my computer's spell checker has the name Lewinsky automatically pre-loaded?
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 31, 2010 15:00:27 GMT 8
[img src=" "] [/img] Location of C1; map came from Wikipedia. At the end of July 2010 ‘Fots2’ and I visited C1, it had been cleared in front pretty much complete. But at the rear, the east side and most heavy at the NE corner was a massive thorny mass of plant thicket. I thought it was impossible to clear. But the Corregidor Foundation INC (CFI) brave workers managed to get rid of it. They truly deserve a BZ, well done!!!! Fots2 did you take a shot of that impossible thorny thicket?
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