A Trestle from the Olden Days

 Hullo blogger pals! We are going on a little adventure today. We read about a place called The Trestle which apparently has some interesting swimming opportunities. Let's go!

Hmmm... that's a bit concerning! Not just "Danger" but "Extreme Danger"... stay close blogger pals.

Well... that was like a 5 minute walk from the road. Hmph, not much of a hike. Now we just have to scramble down this weird embankment...

Oooh... it's not just any old embankment... this looks the abutment of an old bridge, made out of old timbers.

Huh... there must have been quite a bridge over the river at this point... you can see more timbers below...

See... and back in the day, they would have been holding up the bridge.

This is cool! And... just for our friends Jerry & Ben... this would have been a railway bridge!

Oh, we have a nice view here looking up the river... it's pretty rapid through here, I can see why this might be dangerous.

And there... in the distance, you can see the concrete supports for the trestle bridge! But we're not there yet.

We found some cool little succulents growing along here.

Even growing on these bits and pieces of the old trestle bridge.

I guess that at some point, when the bridge was decommissioned, it got torn down... that's too bad.

But there are still some fairly big chunks here...

And... you can even find some chunks of coal if you look closely enough... There was a big coal mine just north of here... back in the day.

Oh look, some railway spikes!!

And a bolt or something. We are going to take these home as souvenirs... maybe even a piece of coal. We could start a little mini-archaeological corner in the garden. I think my pal, Little Fox, working on his Bachelor of Archaeology, would be interested in these artifacts.

And look at this! It looks like part of a train wheel!

But there's no other train bits down here... so it probably wasn't a derailment... 

There's even a bit of rail here... which makes a great stuffie bench...

Ohhhhh... and here is a retaining wall made out of sandstone blocks that is holding up the main part of the bridge abutment...

And yet more railway bits and pieces!! Little Fox would have a field day here!

OK... are we at the river yet? Almost...

We keep catching glimpses of it but get distracted by archaeological discoveries!

To Be Continued....