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For the 4 islands in Manila Bay that used to be the Manila Bay Defense Forts, Corregidor-Ft. Mills, Caballo-Ft. Hughes, Fraile-Ft. Drum, Carabao-Ft.Frank.

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Zf017. My GPS track for this walk, Thursday, the 18th of Feb. 2021, in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. In this image I marked in the locations of the end of my walk.

Zf021. This is the middle part of my GPS track for this walk, Thursday, the 18th of Feb. 2021, in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. This image covers the Engineering Ravine and Morrison Hill.

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Zf020. In this image I marked in the locations of Battery James, Battery Morrison and James Ravine. My GPS track for this walk, Thursday, the 18th of Feb. 2021, in the former Fort Mills on Corregidor Island.

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Zf007. We are in the Fort Mills Engineering Ravine on Corregidor Island. Fort Mills did keep up with the times and built a modern Diesel driven Power Plant. This view is from the west. Immediately to the left in the bushes is a shortcut to the Fort Mills/Corregidor Southroad. I used it today when I came down from Morrison Hill today.

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Zf006. We are in the Fort Mills Engineering Ravine on Corregidor Island. Fort Mills did keep up with the times and built a modern Diesel driven Power Plant; this is inside the power plant. All the diesel engines and generators are gone but unfortunately the wild vegetation is taking over.

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Zf005. We are in the Fort Mills Engineering Ravine on Corregidor Island. Fort Mills did keep up with the times and built a modern Diesel driven Power Plant; this is the front side.

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Zf004. This is the front of the huge Fort Mills Coal fired Power Plant, Cold Storage and Ice Plant. The wild, uncontrolled vegetation is taking over.

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Zf003. This is the east end of the huge Fort Mills Coal fired Power Plant, Cold Storage and Ice Plant. The wild, uncontrolled vegetation is taking over.

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Zf002. This is the road to the engineering Ravine; there are not enough resources to sweep up the leaves any more. The Virus Lockdown and no visitors dried up the CFI resources.

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Zf001. I started walking from MacArthur Café to the Engineering Ravine. I came by here and noticed all the trolleys are left on the island by Sun Cruises Inc. They apparently belong to the Corregidor Foundation Inc (CFI) now. Not a good picture but the story is that the trolleys are still here and are being used by CFI. On the 16th Feb when Corregidor received its first visitors after the Virus Lockdown they were in use. Also during my visit here about 5 drivers from the Camaya Resort/Development arrived here for one day and night and practiced driving the trolleys and learned the visitor routes.