These photos were from our second trip. This trip was technically considered a success however it
didn’t go very smooth at all. We arrived fairly early in the morning and were able to make
a quick entry via the same route we took the previous trip. I wanted to see the isolation rooms
again which I never got to see in the detail I wanted to. The isolation rooms were located in
the basement in one of the wings as far as you could get away from the administration section
of the hospital. We made our way over to them and found a door sitting wide open out to the grounds.
So we didn’t stay there long and moved further away from the open door. I started to notice a bunch of
small holes drilled in the floor that I didn’t recall seeing on the previous trip. I didn’t really
think much of it at the time, but I already knew that the government was talking about demolishing the facility.
We thought we heard some other people in the building so we moved to what we thought was away from
the sounds we were hearing. We decided to move to the top floors and work our way down on this trip.
On the 4th floor of the centre block of the building we found a complete XRAY machine that dated back
to the 1950’s. It was really cool and after checking it out we moved to a room across the hall where
to my surprise I saw 3 men on the roof of the building not far form us. We quickly decided that maybe
we should get out of the building for a little while.
We came back a few hours later to continue our visit. We went back to close to where we were interrupted
before. While prepping my camera we heard someone right around the corner from us and it was too late for
us to get out of the way. Much to our relief we ran into a few students from the local high school that
were skipping class that afternoon. I talked to them for a couple minutes and told them I better not hear
them breaking anything in the building. A few minutes later I looked out some windows on the front of the
building and noticed the kids we were speaking to had been caught by the police on their way out of the building.
I then watched on the kids point directly to where we were in the hospital. We had been ratted out.
The police were not allowed to enter the building unless it was an emergency so all they could do is wait for us.
They continued to patrol the exterior of the building. After a few minutes of conference we decided that our
best option was to be patient. We continued to slowly explore the building while keeping an eye on the coppers.
After about an hour the cops gave up and left. We continued to explore the building for another couple hours,
but we ran out of energy because it had been a long day.
I wanted to see the power / steam plant again as I had a fear that this would be my last opportunity which
was ultimately the case. The power plant was one of the most interesting locations I have ever seen while
exploring. The first time I saw it I was shocked to see that the plant still had all of its 90 year old
turbines still in place. I had thought they would have been removed years ago due to the salvage value
of generators. After seeing the power plant we made our way through the tunnel to the building and ultimately
back to the vehicle. Sadly that was my last opportunity to see the building.