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Photo Of The Day - A Three Hour Tour in Tehachapi California


 Anyone who has traveled up Highway 58 from Barstow to Bakersfield has undoubtedly seen this old abandoned boat and barn on the outskirts of Tehachapi. Anytime a boat is surrounded by sagebrush it kinda stands out. Surprisingly due to the ultra dry climate of the high California desert this once mighty sailing vessel is still in relatively decent shape. I always laughed at the fact that someone came along and spraypainted the words 'S.S. Minnow' on the side. Old timers like me recognize the fact that it's the name of the boat from the popular 60s sitcom Gilligan's Island.

I must of passed by this scene over a hundred times before I decided to pull over and take a picture of it. My wife Terri is the one responsible for working on this one in Picasa to produce the image that you see today.

I posted this photo on Facebook several years ago and several people commented that this location was somehow connected to the infamous Charles Manson and his followers but I just tried to research that claim online and found nothing so I can neither prove or disprove that information.

Connected to an evil cult or not, I find an boat parked in the desert a fascinating subject.

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