The River at The Trestle

 Hullo! We are at The Trestle... which has some old remnants of a railway bridge. We are trying to get to that abutment... but are going to have to go sideways...

A bit of a scramble but... we made it! We are on the top of one abutment and you can see the other one on the far side...

We had heard this was a swimming spot in the summer but... I don't know about that. The river is flowing pretty fast and furious through this narrow chute... and that "Extreme Danger" sign at the start of this adventure has me a bit concerned...

Let's see if we can get closer to the river... ooohhh... that's what the one side of our abutment looks like. 

The other side has some graffiti too, but not as much...

Still doesn't look swimmable...

Unless you're a fish of course...

Oh wait... this is just downstream from the bridge abutments... hmmm...

That pool looks deep but... dangerous too... We found a video of people jumping off of that abutment into the water...

Yup... some young guys are adrenalin junkies!!!

We also found a bunch of boulders all jumbled together and if you look through them, you can see water flowing... this must be what some people say are "tunnels" at this swimming spot. And yes... some adrenalin junkies actually swim through these jumbles... which is likely where the "extreme danger" kicks in!

See... water... flowing... and if you get stuck in one spot with the water pushing against you... well... you might not make it out again!

Here's a video of someone swimming through those boulders... 

We thought this might be a place to take Rose swimming in the summer... Nope...

We like our niece in one piece... (heh... that rhymed!!)... Oh wait... Rose is our cousin... Mama's niece!

And there's even warning signs plastered all over the trestle abutments...

But there are also some cool rock features here... like these hollows that get carved out by the water and rocks swirling around in them.

Can you see us???

Heh-heh... here we are! There's not water in this hollow... otherwise we'd have wet bums!

Oh wow... some of these erosion holes are deep!! We think they are called potholes... Rocks and boulders get in them eventually and make them bigger and bigger...

See... here's one with a boulder in it... when it's high water, the boulder swirls around in the hole making it bigger and deeper... but the rock can't get out...

There are lots of cool erosion features along here.

We could play a great game of hide and seek here!

But definitely not a swimming place... onwards...

Oh... wait... while writing this blog, we found a guy who did a 20 minute video exploring The Trestle!! He saw a lot of the same stuff we did... cool!

PS... we found a photograph online of the trestle back when it was still around! According to stories, the trestle was first used for coal mining, then logging... and then in the mid 1980s it caught fire. Apparently the Mars water bomber from Sproat Lake came and doused it with water a few times. We saw that plane a few years ago! After the fire, a crane came and tore the rest of the bridge down! This was a super cool expedition!