Off the beaten track....and on it too
(Wow, been a looooong time eh? Well, updates should be a wee bit more steady now that exams have been and gone and the moving process is done)
Oh, it's you again? well....just hold on a tic while I find some stuff to show you this time around....errm.....well, the councils of most of the rapidly growing area's want a little more notice you see. We can only give you a few place this time around...sorry.
First up, is a look at the only large area that can work on short notice. Darwin. Darwin nowadays is one of four area's in Ulatown of really notable size, a populous of 15000 and a booming tourism industry to boot. The area, although in recent years stopped growing at breakneck speeds to become more 'controlled' and less sprawly.
(please forgive the grid, I didn't notice it and I'm too lazy to go and take another pic now)
This picture probably shows just how sprawly Darwin is for such a small town, it's a little misleading as this is practically the entire west half of Darwin In fact, you can see the outer extents up the top. In the bottom left of this picture you can see the start of what is a much needed project, the 'paved roads' project. this started in Alistair but has started to reach Darwin. And just in the nick of time with a new wave of tourists set to flood the area this spring.
Here, we see the bulk of the paved roads project as well as the second largest commercial center in Ulatown. The hotels although still out of place are less out of place now. In here we can also see (left) a relatively new development, a large church that a certain group simply demanded must be smack bang in the middle of town. We couldn't really kick out the existing guys so we re-zoned some abandoned residences to accommodate, not ideal for them because it's not central, but they can just deal with it. (it's the out of place looking tower and brown building)
This area is set to grow.
Here, we see an incredibly recent development, some guys from the capitol wanted a train line from there to Hakkus. Going through Ulatown. Good thing they told us because we've started to build a few rails about the place to make use of this. right now we have a line from Darwin to Duncan, a line from Hage to Alistair and are working on a line from Darwin to Derby (new dev) to Alistair. Oh, and there are two stations in Darwin, the other one is southwest near a beach. It'll be good in the future for when we get internal tourism to the beach. Future planning that is.
Now, for something completely different.
Here, we have a little village that sprung up out of nowhere. Off the road between Darwin and Duncan, this little town dubbed branson beach, has a whopping population of 50 and one whole multi-purpose facility (post, power, shops, water and trash management)
The town is mostly populated by beach bums and canoing nuts with a passion for the isolation.
Not for long though! The mayor and owner of the facility in this small divot of a town is really pushing for a bus system to be built in Ulatown. He's going to build a bus station regardless of weather or not it gets passed however. He's cleared an area ready for it already (the gray patch north of the houses)
Nut
Now, to show you what's been happening in the weather.
and suddenly there was little rain for 5 years. This area known as Gilroy and with a massive populous of 2. is possibly the best example of the dry spell. The thick coating of tree's on the higher places in Ulatown has all but thinned itself out with small strips of lush area's here and there where a high-ish pressure water table is leaking a little. In the lower places though, it's still as overgrown as ever.
this house, the 2 guys in Gilroy. Is the result of poor choice of location to put your house. The pressure from the water table here got a wee bit too high. The next day they found their house flooded and in the middle of a lake. They managed over the coarse of a month or two to sandbag a small area in the lake and eventually raise it higher so it wouldn't flood when they removed the sandbags. The results are good. The lake is also spreading outwards slowly. So that small trail there will have to be raised at some point. (these guys are millionaires btw)
Also, on the mysterious rocks and formations...also an insight into why they are so light. We have found that they're not a natural chemical composition. We think there may be someone doing this on purpose.
Come back soon, we may be able to convince the other places to look at them, and then you'll get to see the dirtier side of Ulatown.
(don't forget to rate + comment, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when you do)
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