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Airship | Kimshan Cove and Klag Bay

by Laura Domela and Kevin Morris 2 Aug 18:41 PDT
Airship | Kimshan Cove and Klag Bay © Laura Domela

A bit of a teaser for some news we'll be announcing soon: Kevin is doing the final edits on a novel he wrote (mystery, thriller, historical fiction) that is set in the area we are now exploring. The inspiration for the book came from our visit in 2016, when we went in search of a place called "Radioville" where a guy named Joe Bauer ran a radio outpost in the 1930s to facilitate communications between the gold mining operations here and the rest of the world.

Here is the post from 2016, when we originally went to find “Radioville” based on a tip from a guy on a barstool in Rose’s Bar, when the old radio shack was still standing (barely).

Yesterday, before we left Kimshan Cove (where there was a major mining operation in the 1930s) Kevin took the drone up for some aerials.

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