Travel Theme : Bridges

Well Ailsa you almost had me stumped this week. The theme this week is bridges. Many other people have posted some fantastic shots, so click on the link “Where’s my backpack?” and take a look.

I have crossed lots of bridges during my travels but it is not a subject I seem to have many photos of. In Australia the bridges tend to be an extension of the highway. Flash flooding can cause extensive damage during the rainy season but as we travel during the dry in many cases the river beds are wide and, well, dry… With the road, and by definition, the bridge, passing high over this expanse of sand and rock.

So it was a dive into the hard drive and surprisingly I found a few. I even found one I had taken of that iconic Australian symbol the old “coat-hanger”, the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

So here they are, in no particular order, my bridges….

Queenstown Botanic Gardens cute bridge

Rail bridge over the Katherine River

Hokitika river NZ

Walk way bridge over the tree canopy WA

Looking down into the Land of the Giants

Queenstown Botanic Gardens

In the 1998 floods this bridge was 6 foot under water

Swing bridge over the waterfall at Paronella Park

Bungy jumping from the Kawarau river bridge

Punting on the Avon River Christchurch NZ

Swing bridge

Clutha River Haast Pass

Do you recognize this one?

Bundaberg rail bridge

Robe River WA